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Chapter 5: Installing the Controller and Disk Drives
Connecting Disk Drives to SATA RAID
Controllers
Install your SATA disk drives, following the instructions in your
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system's documentation. There are no jumpers or switches to set on
the SATA controller or disk drives.
Use one SATA cable to connect each disk drive to a SATA port on the
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controller.
When all internal disk drives have been installed and connected,
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close your computer cabinet, and reattach the power cord.
Continue by either setting the boot controller (see
installing the controller driver on an existing operating system (see
page
56), depending on the type of installation you are completing.
Connecting Disk Drives to SCSI RAID
Controllers
For each controller channel, set the SCSI ID of each disk drive to a
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unique number between 0 and 15.
The controller is set to ID 7 by default. Although not recommended,
you can change the controller ID by using the Adaptec RAID
Controller utility (see
Note: Do not change the controller ID unless absolutely necessary.
Install a terminator (or enable termination) on the disk drive at the
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end of each cable, or the end of the cable itself.
Remove any terminators (or disable termination) on disk drives
between the ends of each cable.
Install your SCSI disk drives, following the instructions in your
system's documentation.
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