BSU RAID Cable Configuration

The RAID options available for your system provide your system with the added security of fault tolerance.

If you order a system with a RAID controller, the system is pre-cabled at the factory (see Figure C-2 "RAID System Cabling Configuration".)

If you are adding a RAID controller you must install, cable, and configure the controller. Refer to "Installing a RAID Controller Board" in Chapter 4.

One of the standard features of your BSU tower-based system is the three channel SecuRAID 530 (Mylex eXtremeRAID 1100) controller board, which gives your system the added security of fault tolerance. Your tower-based system has been RAID pre-cabled at the factory. The RAID controller is installed in PCI slot #21 and the third channel (2) is used to control the hot-swap hard disk drives in the two SCSI hard disk drive bays.

The on-board Ultra 160/m and Ultra2-Wide SCSI controller AIC 7899 contains two independent SCSI channels that share a single PCI bus master interface. Each channel is capable of operations using either 8- or 16-bit SCSI providing 160 MB/s (Ultra 160/m) or 80 MB/s (Ultra2-Wide) throughput. As implemented on the system I/O board controller A is used to support SCSI devices in the two 5 1/4-inch removable media bays. A 68 pin to 50 pin converter is also available to be used when installing SCSI narrow devices. SCSI controller B connector (I) is not used when the RAID controller is installed.

Figure C-2 illustrates the BSU RAID and SCSI bus cable configuration. The RAID controller (D) has a SCSI interface cable (H) that attaches to a SCSI backplane (F) supporting up to two SCSI SCA hard disk drives.

A 3 1/2-inch diskette drive is installed in the system and interfaces separately to the system I/O board.

The on-board SCSI controller A also includes a connector located at the rear of the system for connecting external Ultra2-Wide devices.

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5800/180Ra-7 specifications

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