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Setting up the Cabinet
When setting up the deskside cabinet, stand the cabinet on its pre-installed metal foot near
the system base unit. The cabinets can be placed side-by-side. Keep the following in mind
when selecting a location.
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Allow six inches of space in front of the cabinet for the door to open.
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Allow at least a three-inch clearance in back of the cabinet for air circulation.
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Place the cabinet on a hard, flat surface (not on carpet).
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Ensure the surface will support the weight of the cabinets with all RAID disk drives
installed. A fully loaded deskside cabinet weighs approximately 70 pounds.
Connect the cables to the cabinet and to the controller as described next.
Connecting the Cables
This section describes connecting the RAID SCSI cables from the MegaRAID controllers to
the disk array cabinets. Information for choosing and connecting a power cord is also
included.
NOTE
Keep track of the cabinet attached to each channel of the MegaRAID controllers. The drives
in each cabinet must be labeled according to their channel and controller as described later in
this chapter.
CAUTION
The deskside InterRAID-8e can use RAID SCSI cables of only 1 meter. If you attach cables
longer than 1 meter to the cabinet, the cabinet and controller will not operate reliably.
CAUTION
The disk array cabinets must not be daisy-chained to each other. If you attach cables in this
manner, the cabinet and controller may not operate reliably. Intergraph Computer Systems
does not recommend daisy-chaining cabinets.
