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Installing and Labeling RAID Disk Drives
The InterRAID-8e cabinet supports up to eight 1.0-inch or 1.6-inch high, 3.5-inch form
factor RAID disk drives. Capacities include 4 GB, 9 GB, and higher as the disk drives
become available. The slots of the InterRAID-8e cabinet are numbered from 1 to 8, starting
with the bottom slot. The drive SCSI ID’s of the InterRAID-8e cabinet by default are
numbered 0, 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 9, starting with the bottom slot. The SCSI ID if SAF-TE
card by default is 3.
CAUTION
High-capacity RAID disk drives are susceptible to physical shock. Handle all disk drives
carefully and avoid unnecessary handling.
To install and label the RAID disk drives:
1. Unlock the front panel door using the key for the InterRAID-8e cabinet.
2. Remove the RAID disk drives from the drive boxes.
CAUTION
Carefully insert the disk drives to avoid damaging the connector.
3. Install the RAID disk drives into the cabinet as follows.
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Extend the drive latching clips and slide the drive into the slot.
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Push between the latching clips until the drive connects.
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Close the drive latching clips until they snap into place, locking the drive into the
slot.
4. Label the installed drives as described below. Use the peel-off labels from the Drive
Labeling instruction sheet and fill in the information for each drive.
The left side of the disk drive label identifies the disk drive size (in GB). The label has
blank spaces for the numbers to indicate the MegaRAID controller board (ADP),
channel (CH), and SCSI ID (ID).
1
0
0
x GB
ADP
CH
ID
x GB
ADP
CH
ID
Blank Disk Drive Label
Number Added
NOTE
The label sheets do not include the numbers 3 and 7 for SCSI IDs. These ID numbers are
used by the disk array cabinet and the MegaRAID controller board.
