C2100 Drive Order

BruceJG,

The drives are number by the specific backplane installed. With the 3.5" 12 HDD 1:1 backplane, as well as the 3.5 expander backplane it will be numbered as seen below. 

If you have the 2.5" Expander it will be numbers as such;

Let me know if this helps clarify the drive architecture.

Hi Chris-

The images you included in your response are not showing in either the web page here or the email I received as a result of your response.  Do you have a URL for these images?

Thanks!

I unfortunately do not have a URL fro the images, as they are internal. 

Can you copy them to imgur.com or picpaste.com and then send me the link?

If you right click the pictures from this posting you can save them directly. 

I had previously tried that to no avail. I also tried opening this in Chrome, Firefox, and IE - no go.  Can you upload them to one of those site?

Ok, let's try it this way.  My C2100 has 3.5 inch drives and are in a matrix 3 down by 4 across.  

Are the drives numbered this way:

1   2   3   4

5   6   7   8

9 10 11 12

Or this way:

1  4  7  10

2  5  8  11

3  6  9  12

Yes - that's exactly what I need!  Thanks for sticking with this and getting me the answer.