Sun Microsystems X4150 manual How to Add SAS Hard Drives, SAS HD Installation Rules

Adding a DVD/USB Drive Unit (Continued)

3Slide the DVD/USB drive* unit into the DVD slot and engage the connector on the backplane.

4Populate the HD slots with hard drives or hard drive filler panels.

5Test the DVD drive by booting the server using the Tools and Drivers DVD and accessing the Pc-Check diagnostics.

*Use the -09 (or later) revision of the DVD/USB drive unit.

Note – If the DVD drive hangs, during testing, contact Sun service. The issue might be a low-level inter-operability issue between the USB translation device and the system. The issue is usually resolved by replacing an internal board.

How to Add SAS Hard Drives

See the Sun Intel Adaptec BIOS RAID Utility User’s Manual (820-4708).

SAS HD Installation Rules

■Do not mix SAS and SATA drives in the same volume.

■SATA hard drives are not supported on the Sun Fire X4150.

■Supported HBA cards:

■Sun StorageTek PCIe SAS 8-Port Internal HBA, SGXPCIE8SAS-I-Z, LSI SAS 1068E (hardware RAID support)

■Sun StorageTek SAS RAID 8-Port Internal HBA, SG-XPCIESAS-R-INT-Z, Adaptec/Intel-based (hardware RAID support)

■If you are also adding a DVD/USB unit, install the unit before installing hard drives (see “How to Add a DVD/USB Drive” on page 4).

■Hard drives must be initialized before the drives can be seen by the HBA and before an OS can access the disks.

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