Creating Primary And Secondary Ids; Starting The Redundant Controllers; Creating Primary And Secondary Id; Drive Channel - Compaq External RAID Controller & Subsystem Infortrend Operation Manual

Enter a hex number from 0 to FFFFF and press
[ENTER].
different for each controller.
Power off controller 1, then power on controller 2.
Set controller 2 to "Secondary" as described
above.
Power off controller 2.

Starting the Redundant Controllers

Power on all hard drives and the two controllers.
If drives are installed in a drive enclosure, wait
for the drives to be ready, then power on the
enclosure where the RAID controllers are
installed.
The
connecting... <ENT> to cancel" will appear on the
LCD display of the two controllers. After a few
seconds, the Primary controller will startup with
the
displayed on the LCD, while the Secondary
controller will display the message "RC Standing
By.. <ENT> to Cancel" on its LCD. A few seconds
later, the LCD display on the Secondary
controller will be similar to the LCD display on
the Primary controller. The upper right corner of
LCD will then be displaying a "P" or "S,"
meaning "Primary" or "Secondary" respectively.
During normal operation, the controllers continuously monitor each other.
Each controller is always ready to take over for the other controller in an
unlikely event of a controller failure.
The Primary and Secondary controllers synchronize each other's
configurations at frequent intervals through the communications channel(s).

Creating Primary and Secondary ID

Drive Channel

Enter "View and Edit SCSI Channels."
[ENT] and use
channel
Primary/Secondary IDs.
Press [ENT] to proceed.
Use
ID .." or " "Set SCSI Channel Sec. Ctlr ID ..." Press
[ENT] to proceed.
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The value you enter should be
message "RC (redundant
model number and
or to select the host or drive
on which you
or to select "Set SCSI Channel Pri. Ctlr
controller)
firmware version
Press
wish to create
RC connecting...
<ENT> to cancel
View and Edit
SCSI Channels
CH1=Drive PID=7
SID=NA SXF=80.0M
Set SCSI Channel
Sec. Ctlr ID ..
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