Before You Begin; What To Do - Sun Microsystems Sun Fire V490 Parts Installation And Removal Manual

Before You Begin

If a disk drive fails, the system Fault LED and the disk drive Fault LED will light. In
the following figure, the Disk Drive 1 Fault LED is lit.
System Fault LED
If you have not configured the system with two boot disks, you cannot hot-plug a
single boot disk. You can only hot-plug the boot disk if you have configured a two-
disk mirror of the boot disk for hot-plugging. If the system is configured with a boot
disk and a data disk, you can hot-plug the data disk, but not the boot disk.
Complete these tasks:
Obtain the logical device names for the devices you plan to remove. Refer to your
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Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide for more information.
Select the disk and stop any activity or applications accessing the disk drive.
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Unmount any file systems mounted on the disk drive.
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You must follow antistatic precautions when handling a disk drive. Complete
this task:
"How to Avoid Electrostatic Discharge" on page 41
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What to Do

1. Become superuser or the root user:
% su
Password:
#
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Disk Drive 1 Fault LED