Chapter 5: Installing the Controller and Disk Drives
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Install a terminator (or enable termination) on the disk drive at the end of each cable, or
the end of the cable itself.
Remove any terminators (or disable termination) on disk drives between the ends of each
cable.
Install your SCSI disk drives, following the instructions in your system’s documentation.
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If space inside your computer cabinet is limited, connect your disk drives to the SCSI cable
before
installing them. (For installation instructions, refer to your computer
documentation.)
Caution:
To avoid causing unstable operation,
do not
attach a cable to the controller
unless the other end of the cable is attached to a least one disk drive.
Alternatively, install your disk drives, then connect them to the controller.
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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 the following section.
Connecting External Devices
Note:
If you are not connecting any external devices, see the following section,
Next Steps
.
1
(SCSI controllers only
) Ensure that SCSI IDs and termination are set before completing the
connections to external disk drives or devices. See
page 40
.
2
Use high-quality cables to connect your controller to your external device(s), such as disk
drives or disk drive enclosures.
ICP recommends using only ICP cables. For more information or to purchase cables, visit
the ICP Web site at
www.icp-vortex.com
or the Adaptec Web site at
www.adaptec.com
.
Next Steps
If you are installing the controller driver
and
an operating system onto a bootable array,
continue with
Creating a Bootable Array
on page 42
.
If you are completing a standard installation onto an existing operating system, continue with
Installing the Driver on an Existing Operating System
on page 54
.
Monitoring Disk Drives with ICP Storage Manager
ICP Storage Manager allows you to monitor the status of your SAS, SATA, or SCSI disk drives.
Within ICP Storage Manager, you can select a disk drive object and a command will be sent to
the backplane (for internal disk drives) or enclosure (for external disk drives). The LED
associated with that disk drive will flash. The following table describes the LED flash states. For
more information about backplanes, see
Backplane Connections
on page 71
. For more
information about monitoring capabilities, refer to the ICP Storage Manager Help.
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Controller Device State
Slot State
LED Flash State
Failed
Device is faulty
On
Rebuilding
Device is rebuilding
Slow flash
Blink
Identify the device
Fast flash
Other
No error
Off