Component Installation
Caution: Disk drives and printed circuit board components are sensitive to electrostatic discharge. To prevent operating failure or damage, observe the following: Establish a ground for yourself by using the wrist grounding strap, or by touching the metal chassis prior to handling or installing the drives or printed circuit board components.
1Down your server or power off your computer system in preparation for installing the controller.
2Install the RAID Controller into your host computer. For specific instructions, refer to your host system’s manual.
The controller must be installed in slot 1 of the host system (master slot) when booting from this controller.
Caution: Exercise care when handling any hard disk drive. Do not drop, jar, or bump the disk drives.
3Remove one of the disk drives from its
4Holding the drive by its edges, locate the Drive Latching Clips and pull out on the latches to unlock them.
The Drive Latching Clips are placed in the locked position for shipping purposes.
5Insert the disk drive into the drive bay by aligning its rails into the drive bay slots, component side toward the right on
buses: one bus connects the left or upper front four drive slots and the other bus connects the right or lower front four drive slots. The
Depending on which bus the drives will be configured to, begin populating the drives starting with the far right slot or lowest slot for Channel 0 and the fifth drive slot for Channel 1.
PRINTER NOTE: Page size 9” x 9.25”. Align this page to top, right hand corner. Back box bleeds off top and right edge. Left side of page extends to 9.25 inches.
