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ASUS PCI-DA2100 User’s Manual
3. Hardware Installation
3. Hardware
Basic Setup
3.3.
Basic Operational Set-Up
Following is a description of a sample operational set-up:
Terminator
Terminator
Up to 7
Drives
Terminator
Up to 7
Drives
SCSI Cable
SCSI Cable
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The SCSI cable must be shorter than 2 meters
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Drives connected to channel 0 and/or 1.
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SCSI nodes on the same channel have unique ID number. The SCSI ID 7 is
reserved for the ASUS PCI-DA2100 adapter and thus no drives should use ID7.
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Both ends of all SCSI cables are properly terminated. Disable the termination
of channel-0 and enable the termination of channel-1
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Power supply attached.
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All operation parameters properly set.
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Terminate the SCSI cable by either installing a terminator on the
farthest hard disk from the controller or by installing an external
terminator on the end connector. The latter, is preferred as removal of the
hard disk will not affect cable termination. All other terminators must be
removed making sure that only one terminator is installed.
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The default state of terminators embedded on ASUS PCI-DA2100 controller are
enabled, which can be changed by running RAIDMAN.EXE.
External
Channel 0
Internal
Channel 0
Internal
Channel 1
