Installing A Standard Form-Factor Expansion Card - IBM 8832L1X Maintenance And Troubleshooting Manual

Figure 10. Installing a small form-factor I/O card in the blade server
a. Orient the I/O expansion card as shown by number 1 in Figure 10.
b. Slide the notch at the narrow end of the card into the raised hook on the tray; then gently
pivot the card into the expansion card connectors, as shown by number 2 the illustration.
For device driver and configuration information to complete the installation of the expansion
card, see the documentation for the expansion card.
6. If you have other options to install or remove, do so now; otherwise, go to "Completing the
installation" on page 41.

Installing a standard form-factor expansion card

If a SCSI drive is connected to SCSI connector 0 (J94), you must remove it before you can install a
standard form-factor expansion card. You cannot have both a drive that is connected to SCSI
connector 0 and a standard form-factor expansion card installed into the blade server.
If the drive that is connected to SCSI connector 0 contains any information you want to keep, back
up the information. If the SCSI drive that is installed in SCSI connector 0 is part of a RAID array,
delete the SCSI RAID array. When you delete the array, the array configuration information is
removed. No data is deleted. After backing up the data and removing the RAID array, see
"Removing a SCSI hard disk drive" on page 22 to remove the drive.
Complete the following steps to install a standard form-factor I/O expansion card:
1. Read the safety information beginning on page vii and "Installation guidelines" on page 17.
2. Shut down the operating system, turn off the blade server, and remove the blade server from the
SBCE unit (see "Removing the blade server from the SBCE unit" on page 19 for information).
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