Installing A Small-Form-Factor Expansion Card; Installing A Standard-Form-Factor Expansion Card - IBM BladeCenter HS20 Installation And User Manual

The following sections describe how to install an I/O-expansion card in the blade
server.

Installing a small-form-factor expansion card

Install a small-form-factor expansion card near SAS connector 1 (J159). To install a
small-form-factor expansion card, complete the following steps:
1. Read the safety information beginning on page v and "Installation guidelines" on
2. Shut down the operating system, turn off the blade server, and remove the
3. Carefully lay the blade server on a flat, non-conductive surface.
4. Open the cover (see "Opening the blade server cover" on page 23 for
5. Install the small-form-factor expansion card, as shown in the following
6. If you have other options to install or remove, do so now; otherwise, go to

Installing a standard-form-factor expansion card

If a SAS drive is connected to SAS connector 1 (J159), you must remove it and the
SAS drive tray before you can install a standard-form-factor expansion card and
tray (see "Removing a SAS hard disk drive" on page 25). You cannot have both a
drive that is connected to SAS connector 1 and a standard-form-factor expansion
card installed in the blade server. If you are removing the SAS disk drive, backup
any information on it that you want to keep to another storage device.
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blade server from the BladeCenter unit. See "Removing the blade server from
the BladeCenter unit" on page 22 for instructions.
instructions).
illustration.
a. Orient the expansion card.
b. Slide the notch in the narrow end of the card into the raised hook on the
tray; then, gently pivot the card into the expansion card connectors.
For device-driver and configuration information needed to complete the
installation of the expansion card, see the documentation that comes with the
expansion card.
"Completing the installation" on page 34.
Expansion
card