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Manual No. 775029 1-1
Chapter 1
First-Time Configuration
Welcome!
Welcome to RAID EzAssist™, Mylex Corporation’s user friendly
configuration and maintenance utility for RAID controllers. This chapter
will help you get started step by step doing your first Mylex RAID
Controller configuration.
Before you are ready to configure a controller, be sure that you have already
done the following according to the instructions in your controller’s quick
installation or hardware installation guide:
• Installed your Mylex controller(s) in the target system
• Connected appropriate cables between your controller(s) and the set of
disk drives which you intend to use with each controller
• Set unique SCSI IDs for each drive on a particular SCSI bus (i.e.
attached to each Mylex RAID controller), if necessary
• Terminated each SCSI bus appropriately (not applicable for Fibre
channel controllers)
“Previous” Versus “New” Mylex PCI Controllers
Several features of the RAID EzAssist Configuration Utility differ
depending on whether the RAID controller (and thus its firmware) is one of
Mylex’s new generation of controllers, or is an earlier or previous controller.
Throughout this manual we use the terms previous controllers and new
controllers as follows:
Previous Controllers. These include all DAC960P Series controllers (such
as the DAC960PDU, DAC960PG, DAC960PJ, etc.), as well as the
AcceleRAID™ 150/200/250 and eXtremeRAID™ 1100 (DAC1164P)
controllers
New Controllers. These include the AcceleRAID 352 and eXtremeRAID
2000 PCI to Ultra 160 SCSI controllers, and the eXtremeRAID 3000 PCI to
Fibre Channel controller