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Sun Fire X4150 Configuration Guide • March 2009

Verify Hard Drives

Use the PCIe HBA’s BIOS utility to verify that the card sees the hard drives.

When using the Sun StorageTek (Adaptec) HBA card, you must first initialize the
hard drives using the card’s BIOS (even for single-disk configurations) so the an
OS can see the drives (use the Adaptec-based procedure below). The LSI card
automatically manages this step and does not require manual initialization of
drives (use the LSI-based procedure below).

Adding SAS Hard Drives

1

Install drives according to the following drive map:

HD1

HD3

HD7

DVD/USB Drive

HD0

HD2

HD4

HD5

HD6

2

Remove protective covers from the connectors on the card and install the HBA
(PCIe SAS 8-port internal disk controller)

*

* Supported HBAs: Sun StorageTek PCIe SAS 8-Port Internal HBA, SGXPCIE8SAS-I-Z, LSI SAS 1068E and Sun

StorageTek SAS RAID 8-Port Internal HBA, SG-XPCIESAS-R-INT-Z, Adaptec/Intel-based

3

Take the free end of the cable that is attached to the disk backplane on the left-
hand side (disks 0-3) and connect it to the Mini-SAS x4 connector on the card
labeled Port 0, 0-3.

4

Take the free end of the cable that is attached to the disk backplane on the right-
hand side (disks 4-7) and connect it to the Mini-SAS x4 connector on the card
labeled Port 1, 4-7.