Asus pci-da2200 raid controller – Asus PCI-DA2200 User Manual

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ASUS PCI-DA2200 User’s Manual

6.2.2

Understanding Step by Step

The physical connection should be similar to the one shown above.
Install the ASUS PCI-DA2200 RAID controller into a vacant PCI slot
in the host system, connect the drives to the SCSI channels on the
ASUS PCI-DA2200.
A Logical Drive consists of a group of SCSI drives. Drives in one
logical drive do not have to come from the same SCSI channel. Also,
each logical drive can be configured a different RAID level.

ASUS
PCI-DA2200
RAID Controller

…..

Terminator

SCSI cable

Up to
15 drives

Drive Channel 0

Drive Channel 1

ID 5

ID 0

ID 3

ID 2

ID 6

ID 1

ID 0

ID 14

RAID 5

8GB

RAID 0

6GB

Logical Drive 1

Logical Drive 0

Local Spare

Drive of LD1

Global

Spare

Drive