Identifying Disk Drives - Adaptec 5085 Installation And User Manual

Select the disk drive you want, then press Enter.
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Select Identify Drive, then press Enter.
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When you have finished locating your disk drive, press any key to stop the blinking.
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Identifying Disk Drives

You can identify disk drives by viewing the list of disk drives on your system. Only physical
drives that display during POST are shown.
To identify a disk drive:
Start the ARC utility (see
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Select the controller you want, then press Enter.
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Select Disk Utilities.
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The Disk Utilities view will provide you with the following information:
Location
CN1=DEV1
Box0=Slot0
Exp0=phy0
The location information of a disk drive is determined by three types of connections:
Direct attached drives
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for example CN1 (connector 1) is connected to DEV1 (device 1). For more information, see
Direct-attach Connections
Storage Enclosure Processor (SEP) managed devices
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active backplane. Box0 (enclosure 0) is connected to slot0 (disk drive slot 0 in the
enclosure). For more information, see
Expanders
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connected to phy0 (phy 0 within a connector). For more information, see
Connections
Note:
Devices other than disk drives (CDROM, tape drives, etc...) are listed in order after your
system disk drives.
Appendix C: Using the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility
page 97).
Model Rev#
The manufacturer The revision
information. number of the
disk drive.
—The connection is determined by the cable connected to a device,
on page 84
.
—The connections is determined by an expander. Exp0 (expander 0) is
on page 85
.
Speed
The speed of the
disk drive.
—The connection is determined by an
on page 84
Backplane Connections
105
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Size
The size of the
disk drive.
.
SAS Expander