adding 300GB scsi drives to a PE2600 question

[Kuba Ober]

On Friday 11 May 2007, Adam Williams wrote:
> I purchased 6 300GB u320 from a dell authorized reseller for a PE2600.
> They just came in.  Do the drives need to have their jumpers set to a
> scsi id, or does just inserting a drive into bay 0 give it scsi id 0 to
> the controller, another drive put into bay 1 gets scsi id 1 on the
> controller, etc?  the drives have instructions on how to set the SCSI id
> on the labels, but they didn't come with any jumpers.

The controller knows which bay the drive is in, their numbers as assigned 
according to bay numbers. Don't worry about anything else.

As you might imagine, it'd be very inconvenient if, before replacing a failed 
hard drive, people would have to set jumpers.

Cheers, Kuba