Dot Hill Systems II 200 FC Manuale Utente

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SANnet II 200 FC, SATA, and SATA SE Array Installation, Operation, and Service Manual • March 2005

Figure E-1 RAID Array COM Port Connected Locally to the Serial Port of a

Workstation

2. Power up the array.

It can take two or three minutes for both controllers to be initialized before
communication is possible over the connection.

3. Set the serial port parameters on the workstation.

E.2

Using the tip Command for Local Access to
the Array

You can access the RAID COM port (DB9 connector on the controller module) locally
with the following steps.

1. Connect the RAID array COM port to the serial port of a Solaris workstation, as shown

in Figure E-1. Use the tip command to access the array locally:

where n is the COM port identifier. For instance, if you have connected the array to the
COM port identified as ttyb, use this command:

2. Refresh your screen by holding down the Control key on your keyboard and pressing

the letter L key on your keyboard.

# tip -38400 /dev/ttyn

# tip -38400 /dev/ttyb

COM port