Intergraph RAX HD Manual

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RAX High-Definition Animation Recorder

Optional Disk Drive Installation

Each Fibre Channel RAID storage array delivered with

your RAX HD Animation Recorder came with eight

uninstalled Fibre Channel disk drives.  Each disk drive was

in a carrier that you installed in one of the storage arrays.

To increase the disk storage for your RAX HD Animation

Recorder, you purchased a set of additional Fibre Channel

disk drives.  To use these additional disk drives, you must:

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Back up any data on the Fibre Channel disk drives already installed in the storage arrays.  You

will lose that data when you install and configure the additional disk drives.

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Install the additional disk drives in the storage arrays.

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Configure the RAID controller software for each storage array to manage all the disk drives

(twelve) in that storage array.

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Configure the storage array stripe set so the base unit’s operating system will recognize and

use the increased disk space in all of the storage arrays.

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Replace any data you backed up before installing the additional disk drives.

For instructions on configuring the RAID controller and the storage array stripe set, see the RAX

HD Animation Recorder User’s Guide.  For more information on the storage arrays and the disk

drives, see the storage array documentation delivered with the RAX HD Animation Recorder.

Each Fibre Channel storage array has an installation label on the top of its

chassis.  This label:

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Identifies the storage array by letter (A, B, or C) and color (red, green,

or blue)

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Identifies the disk drive bays (1 through 12) in the storage array

Each disk drive has an installation label on the top of its carrier.  This

label:

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Identifies the storage array to which the disk drive belongs by letter

(A, B, or C).

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Identifies the bay (1 through 12) in which the disk drive resides.