Removing And Installing Drives; Removing And Installing A 5.25-Inch Drive - Silicon Graphics 230 User Manual

2: Installation of Customer Replaceable Components

Removing and Installing Drives

Removing and Installing a 5.25-inch Drive

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This section covers the removal and installation of 5.25-inch and 3.5-inch drives in the
drive bays.
The following instructions describe how to remove 5.25-inch drives:
1. Remove the side panel and the bezel as described in "Pre-installation Instructions"
on page 16.
2. Disconnect all cables from the rear of the drive to be removed.
3. To remove the drive from a drive bay, press the drive rail plastic release tabs on both
sides of the drive and pull the drive out of the chassis. Figure 2-6 on page 22
illustrates the procedure (Figure 2-6 illustrates removal of a 3/5-inch drive, but the
removal of 5.25-inch is similar).
4. To remove a drive rail from the drive, pull the rail away from the drive by lifting one
end of the rail.
Any empty 5.25-inch drive bays should be covered with a drive filler plate. The following
instructions describe how to remove and install 5.25-inch drive bay filler plates:
• To remove a drive filler plate, insert a finger into the hole on the filler plate and pull
it out of the chassis.
• To install a drive filler plate in an empty drive, insert and push the filler plate into
the drive bay until the drive filler plate snaps into place.
The following instructions describe how to install 5.25-inch drives:
1. All drives are mounted on snap-on drive rails. The Silicon Graphics 230 Visual
Workstation comes with two sets of spare 5.25-inch drive rails. The spare drive rails
are located inside the chassis on the side of the 5.25-inch drive bays.
2. The drive rails for the 5.25-inch drives are interchangeable—they do not have 'R' or
'L' markings that indicate which side they have to be mounted on. Any unmarked
drive rail can be mounted on either side of the drive.
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