Hard Drives; Drive Cabling Considerations - Intel SC5000 Subassembly Product Manual

Hard Drives

Drive Cabling Considerations

The cables that ship with the SC5000 chassis are prefolded to fit the chassis. To minimize the
chance of damaging a cable, you should keep the cables folded correctly. The number of devices
you can install depends on:
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The number supported by the bus on your server board
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The number of physical drive bays available
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The combination of SCSI and IDE devices
IDE Requirements
If no drives are present on an IDE channel, the cable must be removed. If only one drive is
installed, it should be connected at the end of the cable.
NOTE
To disable the IDE controller: If you plan to disable the IDE controller to
reuse the interrupt for that controller, you must physically unplug the IDE
cable from the board connector if a cable is present. Simply disabling the
drive by configuring the SSU option does not make the interrupt available.
SCSI Requirements
If the optional hot-swap bay is installed, one Ultra160 SCSI cable is provided with the chassis to
connect the hot-swap backplane with the server board. This cable should be connected to the LVD
connector on the server board.
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