HP 3000 99x Family, Installation Manual

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3-44 Chapter 3
Installation
Installing the System Disk and Tape
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An extender cable which is also 68-pin high-density with one male and one female
connector. This cable can be used to extend the cable from the adapter to a
peripheral or to extend the peripheral-to-peripheral cable. Extender cable lengths
available are 2, 5, and 10 meters.
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V-cable, 68-pin high-density, male, male, male.
NOTE
As of this printing, there is a temporary limitation on Fast/Wide SCSI
configurations. Customers cannot mix Independent Mode SCSI Arrays
with the following products: C3040T, C3040R, C3041T, C3041R,
C3044U, C3550T, C3550R, C3551T, C3551R, C3552T, and C3554U.
Assembling HP-FL Disk Arrays
An HP-FL disk array consists of individual disk modules installed in a disk array chassis.
To assemble HP-FL disk arrays:
1. If you are installing several HP-FL disk arrays, find the array with a label over slot 0
reading "System Disk" (Boot Disk). This disk array should be racked as the lowest disk
array in the cabinet.
2. Examine the labels on the boxes containing the disk modules. Each module should be
labeled with a preassigned slot in the disk array.
3. Locate the disk module which is identified as the preloaded operating system (OS). Do
not remove this label; the system will not boot if this module is in the wrong slot.
4. Slide each module into its assigned slot. Lock it in place with the green plastic handle.
HP-FL System Disk
An HP-FL system disk (or disk array) should be connected to the HP-FL (PB-FL) card in
double-high slot 12/13 of the internal HP-PB I/O card cage.
The procedure for making HP-FL connections is given below.
The system disk should be given a device ID of zero (0).
The resulting hardware path (the Primary Boot Path) is 0/52.0.
HP-FL Fiber Cable Connections .
The following paragraphs describe the color keying
and connection procedure for the fiber cables used with the HP-FL boards.
The duplex fiber cables (i.e., two fibers, one transmit, one receive) are color-keyed for
connection to the HP-FL board. One of the two fibers at each end of the duplex fiber cable
has a colored band around it. The band is located near the optical connector of each fiber.
The white-banded fiber connects to the optical transmitter of the HP-FL board; the fiber
with no band connects to the optical receiver of the board. See Figure 3-21 for the location
of the colored bands on the fiber cable.