User`s guide

Installing Internal Drives

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PowerCenter Pro User’s Guide

Set the SCSI ID

Before installing a drive into a Minitower system (or adding an external SCSI

drive to a Minitower or a Low-Proﬁle system), set the drive’s SCSI ID, as

explained below.

1. Set SCSI ID.

Following the instructions which came with your device, set its SCSI ID and

make sure it is not terminated.

Each device in a SCSI chain requires a unique number called a SCSI ID,

which the computer uses to identify the device. The computer itself is

assigned SCSI ID 7 and the primary internal hard disk is assigned SCSI ID 0.

Every other device you install must have a unique number from 1 to 6.

Drives provided by Power normally come with SCSI ID pre-set as follows where

bus 1 is the high-speed 20 MB per second UltraSCSI bus and bus 0 is the 5 MB

per second bus.

To determine what SCSI IDs have already been assigned to which devices, go

to the

Hard Disk Toolkit™ PE

folder in the

Utilities

folder on your

hard disk and run

HDT Primer™ PE

. HDT Primer will scan your SCSI

buses and display the Bus number (0 or 1), the SCSI ID, name, and other

parameters of all of the SCSI devices on the bus (see example below).

Bus SCSI ID Device

1 0 primary internal hard drive

1 1 optional additional internal hard drive

0 3 CD-ROM drive (terminated)

0 5 optional removable-cartridge drive

both 7 motherboard (self-terminated)

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