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Adaptec RAID Installation Guide
ATA Cables
ATA RAID controllers use ATA/100 cables. The cables supplied
with your controller kit have a blue connector at one end and a black
connector at the other end. Plug the blue connector into the
controller and the black connector into the hard drive.
Caution: Reversing the connection degrades the controller
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performance.
Configuring SCSI Devices
When configuring devices for Adaptec 2100S, 3200S, 3210S, 3400S,
and 3410S controllers, you may need to
Decide how to position drives on the SCSI bus.
Select cables.
Enable or disable SCSI termination.
Set the SCSI IDs.
Note: SCSI drives should, in general, not be reformatted.
However, if your SCSI drive was formatted to a sector size
other than 512 bytes, you must reformat the drive before
you can use it in a RAID. Refer to the Adaptec Storage
Management Software User's Guide for details.
In general, RAID drives should be as alike as possible in terms of
capacity and performance.
Narrow and Wide SCSI Devices
You can attach either Narrow (8-bit) or Wide (16-bit) SCSI devices to
your Adaptec SCSI controller. If you use Narrow and Wide devices
on the same Wide cable, put one of the Wide devices at the end of
the cable. This ensures that the 16-bit signals are correctly
terminated.
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