ProLiant DL320 Setup and Installation Guide

3-32 Compaq ProLiant DL320 Setup and Installation Guide
Compaq Confidential – Need to Know Required
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Guidelines for ATA Hard Drives
When installing ATA hard drives to your ProLiant DL320 server, observe the
following general guidelines:
■ Do not add more than two ATA devices per channel. ProLiant DL320
servers have two ATA channels.
■ Set the jumpers on both ATA drives to Cable-Select mode. Doing so
enables the ATA cable to set a unique address, such as Device 0 or
Device 1, for each hard drive.
NOTE: Refer to the documentation shipped with your hard drive to determine how to set
the jumpers on your ATA hard drives to Cable-Select mode.
Guidelines for SCSI Hard Drives
When installing SCSI hard drives to your Compaq ProLiant DL320 server,
you must assign each SCSI hard drive a unique ID. The system begins
searching the drive with the lowest numbered ID for a bootable partition. The
jumpers on a factory-installed hard drive are set to ID 0. For illustration
purposes in this document, we assume the devices are numbered ID 0 and
ID 1, with ID 0 containing the desired boot partition.
Use only supported hard drives in the Compaq ProLiant DL320 server. For a
listing of supported drives, refer to the ProLiant DL320 Quickspecs at the
Compaq website:
http://www.compaq.com
CAUTION: Installing unsupported hard drives may damage your system by
consuming power and generating heat in excess of the server’s operating
tolerance.
This condition may result in a loss of system and/or data integrity.
NOTE: Refer to the documentation shipped with your hard drive to determine how to set
the jumpers on your SCSI hard drives.