IBM 8685 Hardware Maintenance Manual - Page 68
Cabling a RAID or SCSI adapter, xSeries 6-Pack Hot-Swap Hard Drive Expansion Kit
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11. Install the adapter: a. Carefully grasp the adapter by its top edge or upper corners, and align it with the expansion slot on the system board. b. Press the adapter firmly into the expansion slot. Attention: When you install an adapter in the server, be sure that it is completely and correctly seated in the system-board connector. Incomplete insertion might cause damage to the system board or the adapter. c. Lower the adapter-retention tab over the top corner of the adapter. When the adapter-retention tab is completely closed, the adapter-retention latch snaps (locks) into place. 12. If you installed a full-length adapter, move the adapter locking lever to the locked (closed) position on the adapter-support bracket as indicated by the arrows. 13. Connect any needed cables to the adapter. 14. If you installed a non-hot-plug adapter, continue with the next step. If you installed a hot-plug adapter or used the hot-add feature, enable the PCI-X slot from your operating system. (See the documentation that comes with your operating system for information about enabling a hot-plug PCI-X slot.) Make sure that the power-on LED for the hot-plug PCI-X slot comes on. If the power-on LED does not come on, see "Identifying problems using status LEDs" on page 32. 15. If you have other options to install or remove, do so now; otherwise, go to "Completing the installation" on page 106. Cabling a RAID or SCSI adapter You can install an optional RAID or SCSI adapter in your server to control the internal hot-swap hard disk drives, for example, so that you can configure the internal hot-swap hard disk drives into disk arrays. The illustrations in this section show the cabling for internal hot-swap hard disk drives. You can also cable a RAID or SCSI adapter to external hard disk drives. See your RAID or SCSI adapter option documentation for complete instructions about installing a RAID or SCSI adapter in your server and for additional information about RAID or SCSI adapters. Your server comes with one SCSI cable. One end of this cable is attached to the connector on the standard SCSI backplane, and the other end is attached to the internal SCSI channel connector (J15) on the system board. The following procedures describe the single-channel cable routing that is necessary when you install a RAID or SCSI adapter. The illustrations in this section are examples. The cabling that you use for your server depends on your system configuration. Notes: 1. For details on connecting two SCSI channels, see "Working with the optional xSeries 6-Pack Hot-Swap Hard Drive Expansion Kit" on page 63. 2. See the documentation that comes with your adapter for any cabling instructions. 3. Cable identifiers are printed on the cables that come with your server and options. Use these identifiers to connect the cables to the correct connectors. For example, the hard disk drive cables are labeled "HDD option." 58 xSeries 255 Type 8685: Hardware Maintenance Manual and Troubleshooting Guide