Hot-Swap Drives; Non-Hot-Swap Drives; Preinstallation Steps (All Bays) - IBM Netfinity 5100 User Reference Manual

Hot-swap drives

Your server contains hardware that lets you continue to operate your system while a
hard disk drive is removed or installed. These drives are known as hot-swappable
drives. They are also referred to as hot-swap drives.
Each hot-swap drive that you plan to install must have a hot-swap-drive tray
attached. The drive must have a single connector attachment (SCA) connector. Hot-
swap-drive trays come with the hot-swap drives.
• Your server supports six slim (1-inch) or three half-high (1.6-inch), 3.5-inch hot-
swap hard disk drives in the hot-swap bays.
• The hot-swap bays connect to a SCSI backplane. This backplane is the printed
circuit board behind the bay.
• The backplane controls the SCSI IDs for the hot swap drives.

Non-hot-swap drives

Diskette drives, tape drives, and CD-ROM drives are non-hot-swap drives. To
remove or install a non-hot swap drive, you must turn off the server first. Non-hot-
swap drives are installed in bays A, B, C, and D only.
• Your server comes with a preinstalled 3.5-inch, 1.44 MB diskette drive in bay D
and a preinstalled IDE CD-ROM drive in bay C.
• The Netfinity 5100 server supports only one diskette drive.
• The diskette drive uses 1 MB and 2 MB diskettes. For optimum use, format
1 MB diskettes to 720 KB and format 2 MB diskettes to 1.44 MB.
• Bays A and B come without a device installed. These bays are for 5.25-inch, half-
high, removable-media drives, such as tape backup drives. You can combine
bays A and B into a single full-high bay.
• If you are installing a device with a 50-pin connector in one of the empty non-
hot-swap bays (bays A–B), you need a 68-pin to 50-pin converter. To order the
converter, contact your IBM reseller or IBM marketing representative.
Note: The server's electromagnetic interference (EMI) integrity and cooling are both
protected by having bays A and B covered or occupied. When you install a
drive, save the filler panel from the bay, in case you later remove the drive
and do not replace it with another.

Preinstallation steps (all bays)

Before you install drives in your server, verify that you have all the cables and any
other equipment specified in the documentation that comes with the internal drive.
You might also need to perform certain preinstallation activities. Some of the steps are
required only during the initial installation of an option.
1. Read "Safety" on page vii, "Handling static sensitive devices" on page 70 , and
the documentation that comes with your drive.
2. Choose the bay in which you want to install the drive.
3. Check the instructions that come with the drive to see if you need to set any
switches or jumpers on the drive.
4. To install the drive, go to "Installing a hot-swap drive" on page 86 or to
"Installing a non-hot-swap drive" on page 89, as appropriate.
Installing internal drives
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