Remove A Drive - Sun Oracle SPARC T3-1B Service Manual

If your drive falls into these conditions, you must shut down the Oracle Solaris OS
before you replace the drive.
Related Information
"Remove a Drive" on page 64
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"Replace or Add a Drive" on page 65
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"Shut Down the Oracle Solaris OS" on page 56
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▼ Remove a Drive

1. Identify the drive you plan to remove.
Use the Ready to Remove indicator. See
2. Prepare the drive for removal by performing one of the following:
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3. Verify whether the blue Drive Ready LED is illuminated on the front of the
drive.
See
drive was taken offline using cfgadm or an equivalent command. It will not be
illuminated if Oracle Solaris was shut down.
4. Remove the drive as described in the following steps:
a. Push the latch release button on the drive (panels 1 and 2).
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Take the drive offline.
The exact commands required to take the drive offline depend on the
configuration of your drives. For example, you might need to unmount file
systems or perform certain RAID commands.
One command that is commonly used to take a drive offline is the cfgadm
command. For more information, refer to the Solaris cfgadm man page.
Shut down the Solaris OS.
If the drive cannot be taken offline, shut down the Solaris OS on the server
module. See "Shut Down the Oracle Solaris OS" on page 56
"Diagnostics LEDs" on page
"Diagnostics LEDs" on page
10. The blue LED will only be illuminated if the
10.