Exchanging Scsi Drives; Scsi Hard Disk Drives - Mitsubishi Electric FT5000 Handbook

3 EXCHANGING SCSI HARD DRIVES

SCSI hard disk drives

The system supports a variety of single-ended SCSI devices. As shipped, the system might
contain only one hard disk drive. Contact your Mitsubishi Electric dealer for a list of
approved and compatible single-ended SCSI devices.
W W A A R R N N I I N N G G
The single-ended SCSI backplane requires installing single-ended SCSI devices in your
system. Installing differential SCSI drive types can result in electrical damage to the
baseboard and the peripherals.
C C A A U U T T I I O O N N
Electrostatic discharge (ESD) and ESD protection: ESD can damage disk drives, add-in
boards, and other components. This server can withstand normal levels of environmental
ESD while you are hot-swapping SCSI hard disk drives. However, we recommend doing all
procedures in this manual only at an ESD-protected workstation. If one is not available,
you can provide some ESD protection by wearing an antistatic wrist strap attached to
chassis ground of the server—an unpainted metal surface—when handling any components.
Mounting a SCSI hard disk drive in a plastic carrier
1. Remove the 3.5-inch hard drive from its wrapper and place it on an antistatic surface.
2. Record the drive model and serial number in your equipment log
3. Orient the drive so the connector is near the top surface of the drive, then place the
plastic carrier on top of the drive.
4. Using four screws of the correct size and length (not supplied), attach the carrier to
the drive.
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