Installing And Removing Internal Drives; About Internal Drives - Silicon Graphics Octane2 Owner's Manual

Chapter 7: Installing and Removing Internal Drives and Front Module Parts

Installing and Removing Internal Drives

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This section shows you how to install and remove internal drives. Internal drives include
the system disk drive, secondary (option) disk drives, and DAT and DLT drives.
Caution: Drives can be easily damaged. Handle your drive carefully and do not drop it
or handle it roughly.

About Internal Drives

• Unsupported devices may be incompatible with the Octane2 workstation and may
cause problems with supported products.
• All internal devices have a 3.5-inch form factor.
• Set addresses manually only on external SCSI devices; internal SCSI devices (drives)
are installed on a separate bus and are automatically assigned an address. Each bus
has a unique address.
• Bus 0 (internal devices) has addresses such as 0-1, 0-2, 0-3.
• The system drive is SCSI ID 0-1.
• The option drive above it is SCSI ID 0-2.
• The option drive at the top of the Octane2 workstation is SCSI ID 0-3.
• Bus 1 (external devices) has addresses such as 1-1, 1-2, 1-3.
To determine the total capacity and megabytes available on your disks, choose
Tip:
the Toolchest > System > File System Manager and click the Get Info button.