Chapter 5: Installing the Controller and Disk Drives
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When all internal disk drives have been installed and connected, close your computer
cabinet, reattach the power cord, then continue with
Connecting External Devices
on page 41
.
Connecting Disk Drives to SATA RAID Controllers
1
Install your SATA disk drives, following the instructions in your system’s documentation.
There are no jumpers or switches to set on the SATA controller or disk drives.
2
Connect each disk drive to a SATA port on the controller using a recommended SATA
cable. For cable information, see
About Your RAID Controller
on page 15
.
3
When all internal disk drives have been installed and connected, close your computer
cabinet, and reattach the power cord.
Continue by either setting the boot controller (see
page 42
) or by installing the controller
driver on an existing operating system (see
page 54
), depending on the type of installation
you are completing.
Connecting Disk Drives to SCSI RAID Controllers
1
For each controller channel, set the SCSI ID of each disk drive to a unique number
between 0 and 15.
The controller is set to ID 7 by default. Although not recommended, you can change the
controller ID by using the ICP RAID Configuration utility (see
page 83
).
Note:
Do not
change the controller ID unless absolutely necessary.
Disk drives on
backplane
Controller connected to backplane
with Internal mini-SAS (SFF-8087)
Controller connected to backplane
with multi-lane cable (SFF-8484)
Disk drives on
backplane
External SAS cable
connecting to a
drive bay