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External Unit Setup

How to Connect an External Unit

When connecting External Units by External Unit control cables, follow the procedure below.

1Connect each Units in the following order:

System Unit External Hard Drive Unit Z1 External

Device Bay Unit Z1

2When one External Hard Drive Unit Z1 is connected with SCSI connector in the backside of System Unit and the other External Hard Drive Unit Z1 is connected with SCSI connec- tor on PCI Card mounted in the System Unit, connect first the former External hard Drive Unit Z1 and next the latter Unit.

3When the RAID Card which has Two SCSI channels is installed, connect each Units in the channel order.

The following shows an example of how external units are connected to this server.

SCSI connector

PCI card (SCSI card)

 

SCSI cable

 

External Unit

 

control connector

MAGNIA Z300

 

(System Unit)

External Unit

 

control connector

SCSI

(OUT)

connector

 

External Unit

 

control connector

External Hard

(IN)

Drive Unit Z1

External Device

Bay Unit Z1

External Unit control

 

SCSI connector (IN)

 

connector (IN)

 

External Unit Control Cable

 

 

Connecting the External Units