Chapter 1
Introduction
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Caution –
If you are going to include your boot drive in a RAID array, you must
configure it before installing the operating system. See
“To Configure the Sun Blade
RAID 5 Expansion Module” on page 11
.
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To Configure the Sun Blade RAID 5 Expansion
Module
1. Power on the server module.
2. Use Ctrl-A to open the configuration utility.
3. Use the utility to create a volume for each disk or each RAID that you want the
server’s BIOS (and OS if installed) to see.
The BIOS utility can create up to 20 volumes. Each volume can contain a single
disk or a RAID (RAID levels 0, 1, 1E, 10, 5, or 6) with global or dedicated hot
spares.
Each volume created by the BIOS Utility will be seen by the server’s BIOS as a
single disk drive.
For additional information, see the
Sun Intel Adaptec BIOS RAID Utility User's
Manual
.
Dongle Cable Connections
A dongle cable allows you to connect hardware directly to the front panel of the
server module. It supports a video, serial, and USB connections. It provides one
method of accessing the system console, as described in
“Accessing the System
Console” on page 22
.
The dongle cable connection appears in
FIGURE 1-4
.
Note –
The dongle cable has either three or four connectors.
FIGURE 1-4
shows a
dongle with four connectors. The three-connector dongle does not have the DB9
serial console connector (1).
Caution –
Disconnect the dongle cable from the connector on the front panel when
you are not using it.
