Installing A Standard-Form-Factor Expansion Card - IBM LS20 - BladeCenter - 8850 Installation And User Manual

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 SCSI drive is connected to SCSI connector 1 (J12), you must remove it before
you can install a standard-form-factor expansion card (see "Removing a SCSI hard
disk drive" on page 20). You cannot have both a drive that is connected to SCSI
connector 1 and a standard-form-factor expansion card installed in the blade server.
If you are removing the SCSI disk drive, backup any information on it that you want
to keep to another storage device.
If the SCSI hard disk drive that is installed in SCSI connector 1 is part of a RAID
array, delete the SCSI RAID array before removing the drive. When you delete the
RAID array, the array configuration information is removed and no data is deleted
(see "Configuring a SCSI RAID array" on page 39 for more information).
To install a standard-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 17 for
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 29.
page 15.
blade server from the BladeCenter unit. See "Removing the blade server from
the BladeCenter unit" on page 16 for instructions.
instructions).
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