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Using This Guide
This User’s Guide provides a quick reference to information about your S1300 Disk Array
Unit (DAU). Its goal is to familiarize you with your DAU and the tasks necessary for
setting up your DAU, using the DAU, and configuring and upgrading the DAU. This guide
assumes that the reader is already familiar with the host system, Fibre Channel technology,
and operating system environments in which the DAU will be installed.
This guide contains the following information:
! Chapter 1, “DAU Overview” provides an overview of your DAU and describes its major
system components. See this chapter to familiarize yourself with your DAU.
! Chapter 2, “Setting Up Your DAU” tells you how to select a site, unpack the DAU and
provides you with assembly information for preparing and mounting the DAU into a
system rack. Also described are DAU to host cabling configurations, connecting the
power cord(s), powering On/Off the DAU, and configuring the Fibre Channel address
switches.
! Chapter 3, “Adding and Removing Components” provides you with information for
upgrading your DAU with additional disk drives. Information on a power supply, battery
backup unit, controller module and the SVP processor module are also included.
! Chapter 4, “Maintenance and Troubleshooting” contains helpful information for
maintaining your DAU and for solving problems that might occur with your DAU.
! Appendix A, “Controller DIP Switch Settings” contains information on setting DIP
switches located in the controller modules.
! Appendix B, “Specifications” includes physical, power, and environmental information
about your system.
! “Glossary” defines the standard acronyms and technical terms associated with the DAU.
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