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Installation

Manual No. DB11-000033-00 2-17

Fibre Drive Preparation

To prepare the drives for installation, follow these steps:

1. Set up your Fibre Channel Cabinet according to the manufacturer’s

instructions.

☛ Note

Use only Fibre disk drives in your Fibre Channel

Cabinet.

2. Refer to the Fibre drive manual for specific information about drive

configuration settings.

3. Place the Fibre drives into your Fibre Channel Cabinet.

4. The Fibre Channel Cabinet usually handles Fibre ID addresses

automatically.

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Installation Guide 1
LSI Logic Corporation 3
North American Headquarters 3
Milpitas, CA 3
408.433.8000 3
Declaration of Conformity 4
Community of Europe 6
Proprietary Rights Notice 8
Document Description 8
Disclaimer 8
License Restriction 8
Copyright Notice 8
Trademark Acknowledgments 9
About This Manual 11
 Caution 12
 WARNING 12
Contents 13
Memory Module and 14
Battery Backup Unit 14
Error Messages 14
Enclosure Management 15
Glossary 15
PCI Hot Plug 15
Introduction 17
Channel Capabilities 19
Controller Capabilities 19
Operating System Support 19
Standard Package Contents 20
User-supplied Items 21
Installation 23
Installation Checklist 26
Manual No. DB11-000033-00 2-5 27
Connectors, Jumpers and LEDs 28
Manual No. DB11-000033-00 2-7 29
32 bit PCI slots 31
Black Handle 32
SCSI Termination 34
SCSI Cabling 35
Fibre Cabling 37
Fibre Connectors, External 38
Fibre Drive Preparation 39
Controller Start-up 41
BIOS Options 42
Setting BIOS Options 43
Operating System 45
In Case of Problems 46
BDIMM Operation 48
Status Indication 50
Battery and Charge Circuit 50
BDIMM Specifications 51
Specifications 53
Environmental Specifications 54
Installation Abort 56
System Reboot or Power Down 57
Implementation 60
Fibre Channel Cabinet 64
Manual No. DB11-000033-00 G-3 67
Manual No. DB11-000033-00 G-5 69
Manual No. DB11-000033-00 G-7 71
Manual No. DB11-000033-00 G-9 73
Mirroring 76
M.O.R.E 76
Narrow SCSI 76
RAID Levels 79
SCSI Adapters 81
SCSI Drive 81
SCSI Drive States 81
SAME DAC960 controller 83
Stripe Order 84
Stripe Size 84
Stripe Width 84
Striping 84
LSI LOGIC CORPORATION 87

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