DATOptic ARC-1680 Series - Manual (Page 31)

HARDWARE INSTALLATION
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(2).Ghost (such as Carbon Copy Cloner ghost utility) the Mac OS
X 10.4.X or 10.5 system disk on the Mac Pro to the Areca Exter-
nal PCIe SAS RAID adapter volume set. Carbon Copy Cloner is an
archival type of back up software. You can take your whole Mac OS
X system and make a carbon copy or clone to Areca volume set like
an other hard drive. You can also directly install the Mac OS X 10.5
Leopard to Areca Intel IOP Based volume set without using the
Ghost utility.
(3). Power up the Mac Pro machine, it will take about 30 seconds
for controller firmware ready. This periodic will let the boot up
screen blank before Areca volume in the bootable device list.
2.4 SAS Cables
You can connect the end devices to each other through direct ca-
bles or through the SAS expander/backplane connections. The SAS
RAID controller supports daisy-chain expansion up to 8 enclosures.
The following is an example of some internal SAS/SATA cables and
an external SAS cable.
2.4.1 Internal Min SAS 4i to SATA Cable
The Min SAS 4i to SATA cables are used for connection between
the SAS RAID controller internal connectors and connectors on
the SAS/SATA disk drives or SAS/SATA connector backplane. The
SAS controllers has 1-6 Min SAS 4i (SFF-8087) internal connec-
tors, each of them can support up to four SAS/SATA drives.
These adapters can be installed in a server RAID enclosure with
standard SATA connectors backplane. The following diagram
shows the picture of Min SAS 4i to 4*SATA cables. Backplane sup-
ports SGPIO header can leverage the SGPIO function on the SAS
RAID controller through the sideband cable.
The SFF-8448 sideband signals cable is reserved for the back-
plane with header on it.