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Compaq ProLiant 5000 Servers Reference Guide
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SCSI controllers boot from the hard drive with the lowest SCSI ID.
When installing SCSI devices that require frequent physical access,
such as tape drives and CD-ROMs, install them in the Quick Access
Area of your computer.
Install hard drives that require infrequent handling in a drive bay.
Consider separating your slower devices (such as tape drives and CD-
ROMs) from higher speed devices (such as hard drives) by placing
them on two separate controllers.
You must connect external devices with properly shielded cables.
Provide at least 12 inches (30.5 centimeters) of cable between devices.
The total cable length cannot exceed 19.6 feet (6 meters).
Modifying SCSI IDs changes the drive lettering (C, D, and so on).
Plan your hard drive configuration and ID setup before putting data on
drives where the drive letter is important (for example, batch files that
assume a particular drive letter).
Turn on external SCSI devices before turning on the server.
Storage Capacity Planning
Your server includes five internal storage bays (four on the ProLiant 5000
tower models) for drive expansion. You can also use three removable media
drive bays for removable media peripherals. A CD-ROM Drive and a
3 1/2-inch diskette drive are preinstalled in two of the bays.
You can further expand the storage capacity by adding the Fast-Wide SCSI-2
Controller and external storage devices. Each Fast-Wide SCSI-2 Controller
supports up to seven devices. Combining the Integrated Fast-Wide SCSI-2
Controller with four Fast-Wide SCSI-2 Controllers provides a total storage
capacity of 35 drives or up to 150.5 GB of storage.
