Adding A Disk Drive; Removing The Drive Blank; Changing The Device Addition Policy - HP 6100 User Manual

NOTE: Standard and FATA disk drives must be in separate disk groups. Disk drives of different
capacities and spindle speeds can be included in the same disk group, but you may want to
consider separating them into separate disk groups.
Figure 33 Sequential building of vertical disk groups
1. Disks installed in first group
2. Disks installed in second group

Adding a disk drive

This section describes the procedure for adding a Fibre Channel disk drive.

Removing the drive blank

1. Grasp the drive blank by the two mounting tabs (see
2. Lift up on the lower mounting tab and pull the blank out of the enclosure.
Figure 34 Removing the drive blank
1. Upper mounting tab

Changing the Device Addition Policy

To prevent the storage system from automatically grouping a new disk drive that may have the
incorrect firmware on it, the Device Addition Policy must be checked and set to manual if necessary:
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Figure 34 (page
2. Lower mounting tab
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