
Compaq Smart Array 5300 Controller User Guide
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COMPAQ CONFIDENTIAL
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Hard Drive Installation and Replacement
Each SCSI channel on the controller supports up to 14 drives. Drives can be of the
Wide Ultra3 or Wide Ultra2 type.
Each drive on a SCSI bus must have a unique ID value in the range 0 to 15 (except
ID 7, which is reserved for controller use). This value is set automatically on hot-
pluggable drives in Compaq
ProLiant
TM
servers and storage systems, but values for
other drives must be set manually.
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Do
not
terminate the drives. Compaq servers and internal cabling provide the
required termination of the SCSI bus.
•
Do
not
use drives of different capacity in the same array. The excess capacity of
larger drives cannot be used by the array and is wasted.
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Do
not
use hot-pluggable drives on the same SCSI bus as non-hot-pluggable
drives.
Hard drives that are currently supported by Smart Array controllers are listed at
www.compaq.com/products/storageworks/.
General Information About Hard Drive Failure
When a hard drive fails, all logical drives that are in the same array will be affected.
Each logical drive in an array may be using a different fault-tolerance method, so
each logical drive can be affected differently.
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RAID 0 configurations cannot tolerate drive failure. If any physical drive in the
array fails, all non-fault-tolerant (RAID 0) logical drives in the same array will
also fail.