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Chapter 2: installation, Chapter 2, Installation – Avago Technologies eXtremeRAID 3000 User Manual

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Chapter 2

Installation

This chapter describes:

• Before you begin

• Safety Considerations

• Installation Checklist

• Connectors, Jumpers, LED’s

• Installation steps

• SCSI drive termination

• SCSI cabling, internal ribbon cable only

• SCSI drive preparation

• Limitations on mixing various SCSI drive types

• Fibre drives, no termination

• Fibre cabling

• Fibre drive preparation

Mylex disk array controllers are designed to work in a variety of SCSI and
Fibre RAID application environments. Certain configuration steps need to be
performed prior to installing the controller into a RAID environment. Each
of the steps described in this chapter are part of the installation process.