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Chapter 7 Installing Hardware Options
■ Notes on Installing Expansion Cards
• Install installable expansion cards only.
• Before installing an expansion card, refer to "PRIMERGY ServerBooks" supplied with the server,
and "Supplement" supplied with options. Also, check the following for respective expansion cards.
● Points to Note when Installing RAID Card (PG-140D1/PG-142E3)
• Connection of a SCSI device
Connect the SCSI device supported by this server. Operations are not guaranteed when an
unsupported SCSI device is connected. For details about connection patterns, refer to "
■
Connections" (pg.209).
• Precautions before OS installation
In addition to the completion of RAID card configuration, the hard disk under the RAID card must be
initialized or the background initialization process must be started before the OS is installed. When
the OS is installed using ServerStart, ServerStart performs configuration and hard disk initialization
automatically.
• Installation locations
If the hard disk unit where the OS is installed is connected to the RAID card, install the RAID card in
Slot 1.
• PCI slot settings
When connecting to an external SCSI device (when not connecting with an internal hard disk unit)
after installing the RAID card (PG-140D1/ PG-142E3), set the following BIOS setting to "Disabled"
(Set to "Disabled" at time of purchase).
However, when a RAID card (PG-140D1/PG-142E3) has been installed to PCI slot 1 and connecting
to the internal hard disk units, select BIOS setup utility "Advanced" menu → "PCI Configuration"
sub menu → "PCI slot 1 Configuration Option ROM SCAN" to change the setting to "Enabled". For
more details, refer to "8.2.7 PCI Configuration Submenu" (
pg.240).
When the configuration for connecting to the internal hard disk has been selected after the RAID card
was installed on an array type or customized type, the BIOS settings of PCI Slot 1 are set to
"Enabled" at the time of purchase.