Drive Bay Installation; Sata Backplane - Supermicro SuperWorkstation 7048A-T User Manual

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Drive Bay Installation

A total of eight SATA drives may be housed in the SC743TQ-1200B-SQ chassis.
The drive IDs are preconfigured as 0 through 7 in order from bottom to top (or from
left to right if rackmounted).
A bezel covers the drive area but does not need to be removed to access the drives;
simply swing open the bezel. If you wish to remove the bezel piece, push on the
three tabs on the inside of the left lip of the front chassis cover. Then slightly swing
out the same (left) side of the cover - about ½ inch only. Remove by pushing on
the open side of the cover to remove it from the chassis (do not try to swing or pull
it straight out after opening the left side).
Caution: Regardless of how many SATA drives are installed, all drive carriers must
remain in the drive bays to promote proper airflow.
Installing/Removing SATA Drives
The SATA drive carriers are all easily accessible at the front of the chassis. These
drives are hot-swappable, meaning they can be removed and installed without
powering down the system.
1. Open the front bezel then push the release button located beside the drive
LEDs.
2. Swing the handle fully out and then use it to pull the unit straight out.
Note: Your operating system must have RAID support to enable the hot-swap
capability of the SATA drives.
Mounting a SATA Drive in a Drive Carrier
The SATA drive carriers help to promote proper airflow for the system. For this
reason, even carriers without SATA drives must remain in the chassis.
1. Insert the drive into the carrier with the printed circuit board side facing down
so that the mounting holes align with those in the carrier.
2. Secure the drive to the carrier with four screws (see Figure 6-5).
Note: Enterprise level hard disk drives are recommended for use in Supermicro chassis
and servers. For information on recommended HDDs, visit the Supermicro Web site
at http://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/storage.cfm
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Figure 6-4. Removing a SATA Drive Carrier
Figure 6-5. Mounting a SATA Drive in a Carrier
Warning: Use extreme caution when working around the SATA backplane. Do not
touch the backplane with any metal objects and make sure no ribbon cables touch
the backplane or obstruct the airflow holes.

SATA Backplane

The SATA drives plug into a drive backplane. A data cable for each drive and two
LED cables need to be connected from the serverboard to the appropriate connec-
tors on the backplane. Note that you cannot cascade the SATA backplane.
Chapter 6: Advanced Chassis Setup
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