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Installing a hot-swap drive
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.
Notes:
1. Each hot-swap drive that you plan to install must have a hot-swap-drive tray
2. Empty hot-swap bays and trays that contain slim-high drives must contain a
3. Your server automatically sets SCSI IDs for hot-swap hard disk drives. The
4. All the internal hot-swap drives in your server have automatic termination.
Attention:
To avoid damage to a hard disk drive, do not remove the drive from the hot-swap
bay until it has had time to spin down (approximately 30 seconds after
disconnecting). Handle the drive gently.
Refer to the following illustration while you perform the steps in this procedure.
To install a hard disk drive:
1. Review the information in "Safety" on page v through "Handling static-sensitive
2. Determine the bay in which you want to install the drive.
3. Verify that all jumpers are removed from the drive.
4. Remove the filler panel 1 from the empty hot-swap bay by inserting your
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attached. The drive must have a single connector attachment (SCA)
connector. Hot-swap-drive trays come with the hot-swap-drives.
filler bezel.
server uses the hard disk drive SCSI IDs to send status information to the
indicator lights located on each hot-swap drive.
Attention: Do not set the SCSI ID jumpers on hard disk drives.
1
Filler panel (tray and slim filler bezel)
2
Hot-swap hard disk drive
3
Drive tray handle (open position)
devices" on page x.
finger into the depression at the left side of the filler panel and pulling it away
from the server.
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