Before You Begin; Installing A Scsi Hard Drive - Dell PowerEdge 1650 Installation And Troubleshooting Manual

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Installing Drives
Dell™ PowerEdge™ 1650 Systems Installation and Troubleshooting Guide
Installing SCSI Hard Drives
Installing an IDE Hard Drive
Installing a CD Drive
Installing a Diskette Drive
Connecting External SCSI Hard Drives
Connecting an External SCSI Tape Drive
Configuring the Boot Device
Your system features an internal hard-drive bay that contains up to three SCSI hard drives or two IDE hard drives. Your system also features two peripheral
bays that can be used for an optional CD drive and a 3.5-inch diskette drive. This section contains instructions for replacing these devices as well as upgrading
the system by installing a host adapter card.
Installing SCSI Hard Drives
This subsection describes how to install and configure SCSI hard drives in the system's internal hard-drive bays and how to upgrade the system by installing a
host adapter expansion card.
The internal hard-drive bays provide space for up to three 1-inch SCSI hard drives. These drives connect to the system board via a SCSI backplane board.

Before You Begin

SCSI hard drives are supplied in special drive carriers that fit in the hard-drive bays.
NOTICE: Before attempting to remove or install a drive while the system is running, see the documentation for the host adapter to ensure that the
host adapter is configured correctly to support hot-pluggable drive removal and insertion.
NOTE: It is recommended that you use only drives that have been tested and approved for use with the SCSI backplane board.
You may need to use different programs than those provided with the operating system to partition and format SCSI hard drives.
NOTICE: Do not turn off or reboot your system while the drive is being formatted. Doing so can cause a drive failure.
When you format a high-capacity SCSI hard drive, allow enough time for the formatting to be completed. Long format times for these drives are normal. A 9-GB
hard drive, for example, can take up to 2.5 hours to format.

Installing a SCSI Hard Drive

NOTICE: Hot-plug drive installation is not supported for systems without the optional ROMB card.
1. If the system does not have a ROMB card installed, shut down the system.
2. Remove the front bezel, if attached (see
3. Open the hard-drive handle (see Figure 7-1).
Figure 7-1. Installing a SCSI Hard Drive
4. Insert the hard drive into the drive bay (see Figure 7-1).
"Removing and Replacing the Front Bezel" in "Troubleshooting Your System").