Installing A Simple-Swap Hard Disk Drive - IBM x3650 M3 Installation And User Manual

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4. Pull the hot-swap drive assembly out of the bay approximately 25 mm (1 in.).
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If you have other devices to install or remove, do so now. Otherwise, go to
"Completing the installation" on page 154.

Installing a simple-swap hard disk drive

Use this information to install a simple-swap hard disk drive .
About this task
Locate the documentation that comes with the hard disk drive and follow those
instructions in addition to the instructions in this section.
Simple-swap models do not support the SAS hot-swap backplane or the SAS
riser-card.
For information about the type of hard disk drive that the server supports and
other information that you must consider when installing a hard disk drive, see the
Installation and User's Guide on the IBM Documentation CD.
Important: Do not install a SCSI hard disk drive in this server.
Figure 49. Simple-swap model installation
To install a drive in a simple-swap bay, complete the following steps.
Attention: To maintain proper system cooling, do not operate the server for more
than 10 minutes without either a drive or a filler panel installed in each bay.
Wait approximately 45 seconds while the drive spins down before you remove
the drive assembly completely from the bay.
Note: You might have to reconfigure the disk arrays after you remove a hard
disk drive. See the RAID documentation on the IBM ServeRAID Support CD for
information about RAID controllers.
Chapter 2. Installing optional devices
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