Installing The Sas Raid Controller Daughter Card; Activity Indicator Cable; Installing The Sas Raid Controller Daughter Card Hard Drive Activity Indicator Cable; Configuring The Boot Drive - Dell PowerEdge 1900 Systems Owner's Manual

Installing the SAS RAID Controller Daughter Card

1 Hold the SAS RAID controller daughter card by its edges and align the card with the slide rails on the
expansion-bay bracket. See Figure 3-26.
NOTE:
When pushing the SAS RAID controller daughter card into the socket connector, push only on the card
edges and not on the DIMM or any part of the DIMM socket on the SAS RAID controller daughter card.
2 Insert the card into the slide rails and slide the card down until the card-edge connector seats into the
dedicated storage socket (INT STORAGE) on the system board. See Figure 3-8 and Figure 3-26.
3 Connect the battery cable to the battery cable connector on the SAS RAID controller daughter card.
See Figure 3-25.
4 Connect the hard drive LED activity indicator cable to the SAS RAID controller daughter card and to
the system board connector (HD_ACT_CARD). See Figure 3-26 and Figure 6-2.
If you need to replace the SAS RAID controller daughter card battery, see "Replacing the SAS RAID
Controller Daughter Card Battery" on page 95.
If you need to replace the SAS RAID controller daughter card hard drive LED activity indicator cable, see
"Replacing the SAS RAID Controller Daughter Card Hard Drive Activity Indicator Cable" on page 98.
Replacing the SAS RAID Controller Daughter Card Hard Drive Activity Indicator Cable
1 Turn off the system, including any attached peripherals, and disconnect the system from the electrical
outlet.
2 Open the system. See "Opening the System" on page 48.
3 Disconnect the hard drive LED activity indicator cable from the SAS RAID controller daughter card
and from the system board.
4 Connect the replacement cable to the SAS RAID controller daughter card and to the system board
connector (HD_ACT_CARD). See Figure 3-26 and Figure 6-2.
5 Close the system. See "Closing the System" on page 48.
6 Reconnect the system to the electrical outlet and turn on the system and attached peripherals.

Configuring the Boot Drive

By default, the system boots from drive 0. The order of boot devices is specified in the System Setup
program. See "Using the System Setup Program" on page 33.
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