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Chapter 5: Installing the Controller and Disk Drives 41
3 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 42
.
Connecting Disk Drives to SATA RAID Controllers
1 Install your SATA disk drives, following the instructions in your systems 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 43) or by installing the controller
driver on an existing operating system (see page 55), 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 ARC utility (see page 84).
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