HP TC4100 User Manual

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Chapter 3

Installing and Configuring

The system chassis ships with a Hot Swap Mass Storage cage supporting up to eight low-profile Hot Swap hard
drives.

Figure 3-6. Standard Mass Storage Configuration

Boot Priority

This section details the HP Server tc4100’s boot order by highest to lowest priority. The on-board SCSI
controller has two channels, A and B. Channel B is typically used to control the Hot Swap SCSI drives. Channel
A is typically used to control the internal non-hot swap SCSI drives. On each SCSI channel, the Server scans
for a boot device starting at device ID 0 and proceeds up from there.

The HP Server tc4100’s boot order (BIOS search order for a boot device) should be considered, when
connecting cables from the on board SCSI channels.

By default the Server searches for boot devices in this order:

1. IDE CD-ROM drive

2. Flexible disk drive

3. SCSI A bus (typically non-Hot Swap internal SCSI devices)

4. SCSI B bus (typically Hot Swap Mass Storage Cage)

5. PCI Slot 6

6. PCI Slot 5

7. PCI slot 4

8. PCI slot 3

9. PCI slot 2

10. PCI slot 1

11. Embedded LAN

You can change this boot order using the Setup Utility (BIOS) by pressing F2 during the boot process, and the
SCSI Configuration Utility by pressing Ctrl-C during the boot process.

Hot Swap

Hard Drives

(8 bays)

CD-ROM

Drive

Flexible Disk

Drive (Floppy)

Hard Drive

Lock

Non-hot-swap

Drives

(optional)