How To Add Sas Hard Drives - Sun Microsystems Sun Fire X4450 Configuration Manual

Note – If the DVD drive hangs during testing, contact Sun service. The issue might
be a low-level inter-operability issue between the USB translation device and the
system. The issue is usually resolved by replacing an internal board.

How to Add SAS Hard Drives

See the Sun Intel Adaptec BIOS RAID Utility User's Manual (820-4708) at:
http://docs.sun.com
SAS HD Installation Rules
Do not mix SAS and SATA drives in the same volume.
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SATA hard drives are not supported on the Sun Fire X4450.
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Supported HBA cards:
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If you are also adding a DVD/USB unit, install the unit before installing hard
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drives (see
Hard drives must be initialized before the drives can be seen by the HBA and
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before an OS can access the disks.
Adding SAS Hard Drives
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6 Sun Fire X4450 Volume Configuration Guide • March 2009
Sun StorageTek PCIe SAS 8-Port Internal HBA, SGXPCIE8SAS-I-Z, LSI SAS
1068E (hardware RAID support)
Sun StorageTek SAS RAID 8-Port Internal HBA, SG-XPCIESAS-R-INT-Z,
Adaptec/Intel-based (hardware RAID support)
"How to Add a DVD/USB Drive" on page
Install drives according to the following drive map:
HD1 HD3
HD0 HD2
5).
HD7 DVD/USB Drive
HD4 HD5 HD6