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IV. Hardware Setup
II. Components
AR1000 RAID Subsystem Hardware Reference Guide
SCSI Cabling-2
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2
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1.
Channel 0 connects to the Host Computer.
2.
Channel 1 connects to the top SCSI backplane.
3.
Channel 2 connects to the bottom SCSI backplane.
4.
The top SCSI backplane is terminated.
5.
The bottom SCSI backplane is terminated.
IMPORTANT
• This setting allows one host computer and two drive channels
to be used. Channel 0 is assigned to the host channel while
Channel 1 and Channel 2 are assigned to the drive channels.
• With this configuration, every drive channel supports up to 5
physical drives.
• Disk drives connecting to the two DA-BP5 SCSI backplanes
may have identical or different SCSI IDs.
Cabling the RAID Controller to One Host Computer
• 2-13. SCSI Cabling-2
NOTE
Read the DA3000 User’s Manual for how to switch a drive
channel to a host channel.
