Installing A Drive In A Hot-Swap Bay - IBM eServer xSeries 255 Installation Manual

Installing a drive in a hot-swap bay

Your server supports up to a maximum of 12 26-mm (1-inch) slim-high, 3.5-inch, hot-
swap hard disk drives in the hot-swap bays. The standard hot-swap bays are bays 1
through 6 (from left to right). The optional hot-swap bays are bays 7 through 12 (from
left to right). Bays 1 through 6 are located in the standard (upper) hard disk drive cage,
above bays 7 through 12 in the optional (lower) hard disk drive cage.
The SCSI IDs for the hot-swap drives are printed on the bezel, immediately adjacent
to the hot-swap drive bays. The IDs are:
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Notes:
1. The server does not support half-high hot-swap drives.
2. If you plan to install hot-swap drives in bays 7 through 12, you must first install an
3. If you plan to install 5.25-inch removable-media drives in your server, see the
Filler panel
Hard disk drive
Drive tray
Drive tray handle
(in open position)
Complete the following steps to install a drive in a hot-swap bay.
Attention: To maintain proper system cooling, do not operate the server for more
than 10 minutes without either a drive or filler panel installed in each bay.
1. Review the information beginning with "Safety" on page v through "Handling
2. If you are installing drives in a tower model, remove the bezel (see the Option
0 through 5 for bays 1 through 6
10 through 15 for bays 7 through 12
optional SCSI backplane. See the Option Installation Guide on the IBM xSeries
Documentation CD for details.
Option Installation Guide on the IBM xSeries Documentation CD for details.
static-sensitive devices" on page x.
Installation Guide on the IBM xSeries Documentation CD for details).
Chapter 2. Installing options
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