How to connect internal drives to 5300 controller?

[Henderson Wood]

I have a DL380 server with 6 internal drives. drive 0 and 1 are in a Raid 1 Array containing the OS. The other 4 drives are in a Raid 5 configuration and all or connected to the onboard 5i.

I want to connect the Raid 5 (4 internal drives) to a 5300 SCSI for performance reason (drives still remain in the Cage) Is this possible, if so how can I do it?

hendy

[KarloChacon · Accepted solution]

hi Henderson

yes what you want to accomplish is called PCI duplexing as you say to improve performance

OK this is the way

3 components will be needed:
Short SCSI cable - 5i to 2 HDD (0-1)
Long SCSI cable - 5300 to 4 HDDs (2...5)
Terminator board - to handle bays.

more information here, page 102 (PCI Duplex SCSI Cabling)

http://bizsupport.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01122783/c01122783.pdf

regards

[predrag81]

Karlo,

whether he can just put SA5300 in pci and connect 4 drives while 5i is responsible for mirroring and he would be first in boot order.
Why third component is needed?
We can do it without third component?

KR
Predrag

[Henderson Wood]

Are these cable included in the SCSI cable kit with part no 199606-019. And what about the Terminator block is that something I will need to obtain as well?

[Henderson Wood]

Correction: part number 289567-001 ?

[KarloChacon]

yes

that includes that cables: 289567-001

and this is the one for SCSI terminator
289563-001

btw predrag81 asked why this configuration it's because Henderson wants 5i controls 0, 1 and PCI controller controls 2...5 and that's the only way if not terminator is used PCI controller will have to handle all HDDs 0...5

bye

[Henderson Wood]

Solution achieved and points awarded.