Checking The Drive Bay Setup - Supero 7043M-6 User Manual

Supermicro superserver 7043m-6 servers: user guide
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Checking the Drive Bay Setup

Next, you should check to make sure the peripheral drives and the SCSI
drives and SCA backplane have been properly installed and all connections
have been made.
1. Accessing the drive bays:
All drives can be accessed from the front of the server.
the CD-ROM and floppy drives, you will need to remove the top/left chas-
sis cover. The SCSI disk drives can be installed and removed from the
front of the chassis without removing any chassis covers.
2. Installing components into the 5.25" drive bay:
To install components into the 5.25" drive bays, you must first remove the
top/left chassis cover as described in the previous section.
Chapter 6 for details.
3. Installing CD-ROM and floppy disk drives:
Refer to Chapter 6 if you need to reinstall a CD-ROM and/or floppy disk
drive to the system.
4. Check the SCSI disk drives:
Depending upon your system's configuration, your system may have one
or more drives already installed. If you need to install SCSI drives, please
refer to Chapter 6.
5. Check the airflow:
Airflow is provided by two 9-cm cooling fans and a heavy duty 12-cm
exhaust fan.
promote sufficient airflow through the 4U rackmount space.
that all power and data cables have been routed in such a way that they
do not block the airflow generated by the fans. Keep this in mind when
you reroute them after working on the system.
The system component layout was carefully designed to
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Chapter 2: Server Installation
For servicing
Refer to
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