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Once the Physical View has been opened and channel icons, have appeared under the Physical View
icon in the Navigation Panel, select the channel that needs to be configured.
7.2 User-Configurable Channel
Parameters
Once the channel has been selected, the content window will appear. The different options are
discussed below.
7.2.1 ID pool / PID / SID
This parameter sets the ID of the channel. Each channel must have a unique ID in order to work
properly. ID ranges from 0 up to 15, with 0 assigned as the default value for host channels, and 7
for drive channels.
It is necessary to create a SID on every I/O channels in redundant controller configuration. The
default are 6 for SID and 7 for PID on drive channels. The default values for Infortrend's dual-
redundant configuration are 8 for SID and 9 for PID. For more information, please refer to the
hardware documentation that came with your controller.
7.3 Setting the Configuration of a
Channel
1
Display Physical View by clicking on the Physical View command button under the RAID View
introduction or by selecting Physical View from the RAID View Navigation Panel. (See Section 3.3
on page 33
2
From Physical View double-click on the corresponding Channel icon of the target channel. Channel
icons are displayed in the navigation panels on the left side of the RAID View window. The Channel
Settings configuration will appear in the RAID View content panel.
3
If you want to assign a different ID to the selected channel, choose the new ID from the ID pool
scroll menu shown in Figure 7–1.
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