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IV. Hardware Setup
• 2-14. SCSI Cabling-3
Cabling the RAID Controller with Other SCSI Devices
1.
Cable 1 connects the host computer to Channel 0.
2.
A 5-cm SCSI cable with 2 female connectors connects
Cable 1 and Cable 3.
3.
Cable 3 connects to another AR1000 or SCSI device.
4.
Channel 1 connects to the top SCSI backplane.
5.
Channel 2 connects to the bottom SCSI backplane.
6.
The top SCSI backplane is terminated.
7.
The bottom SCSI backplane is terminated.
IMPORTANT
• This setting allows the connection of multiple AR1000 RAID
systems or other SCSI devices. Channel 0 is assigned to the
host channel while Channel 1 and Channel 2 are assigned to
the drive channels.
• With this configuration, every drive channel supports up to 5
physical drives.
• Disk drives connecting to the two DA-BP5 SCSI backplanes
may have identical or different SCSI IDs.
• All DA3000 RAID controllers on the SCSI chain must have
different SCSI IDs.
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