Sun Microsystems X4150 manual Verify Hard Drives, HD2 HD4 HD5 HD6

Adding SAS Hard Drives

1	Install drives according to the following drive map:
	HD1	HD3	HD7	DVD/USB Drive
	HD0	HD2	HD4	HD5	HD6

2Remove protective covers from the connectors on the card and install the HBA (PCIe SAS 8-port internal disk controller)*

3Take the free end of the cable that is attached to the disk backplane on the left- hand side (disks 0-3) and connect it to the Mini-SAS x4 connector on the card labeled Port 0, 0-3.

4Take the free end of the cable that is attached to the disk backplane on the right- hand side (disks 4-7) and connect it to the Mini-SAS x4 connector on the card labeled Port 1, 4-7.

*Supported HBAs: Sun StorageTek PCIe SAS 8-Port Internal HBA, SGXPCIE8SAS-I-Z, LSI SAS 1068E and Sun StorageTek SAS RAID 8-Port Internal HBA, SG-XPCIESAS-R-INT-Z, Adaptec/Intel-based

Verify Hard Drives

Use the PCIe HBA’s BIOS utility to verify that the card sees the hard drives.

■When using the Sun StorageTek (Adaptec) HBA card, you must first initialize the hard drives using the card’s BIOS (even for single-disk configurations) so the an OS can see the drives (use the Adaptec-based procedure below). The LSI card automatically manages this step and does not require manual initialization of drives (use the LSI-based procedure below).

6 Sun Fire X4150 Configuration Guide • March 2009