Basic Operational Set-Up - Asus PCI-DA2100 User Manual

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Basic Operational Set-Up

Some of the examples presented in this section are only illustrated for
the ASUS PCI-DA2200. There are three major differences between the
two RAID cards when referring to the following examples.
PCI-DA2100 only supports UltraWide and earlier SCSI devices.
PCI-DA2200 supports both Ultra2 (LVD) and earlier SCSI devices.
PCI-DA2100 has only a single external channel (0).
PCI-DA2200 has two external channels.
PCI-DA2100 devices are terminated on the device (jumpers/switches)
PCI-DA2200 devices are terminated on the cable (external terminator)
Sample operational set-up: (PCI-DA2100)
ASUS PCI-DA2100
RAID Controller
Sample operational set-up: (PCI-DA2200)
ASUS PCI-DA2200
RAID Controller
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Ultra Wide SCSI Bus
SCSI cable
Ultra Wide SCSI Bus
SCSI cable
Ultra2 Wide SCSI Bus (LVD)
SCSI cable
Ultra2 Wide SCSI Bus (LVD)
SCSI cable
ASUS PCI-DA2100/PCI-DA2200 User's Manual
All drives, terminators and SCSI cables should
use Ultra2 Wide SCSI (LVD) devices only.
Up to
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15 drives
Terminated
Up to
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15 drives
Terminated
Terminator
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Up to
15 drives
Terminator
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Up to
15 drives