SUPERSERVER 2028TP-DC1R/DC1TR/DC1FR USER'S MANUAL
6-10 Drive Bay Installation/Removal
Accessing the Drive Bays
SAS/SATA Drives: You do not need to access the inside of the chassis or remove
power to replace or swap the SAS/SATA drives. Proceed to the next step for
instructions. You must use 2.5" SAS/SATA drives in the system.
Note: Refer to the following FTP site for setup guidelines: <ftp://ftp.supermicro.com/
driver/SAS/LSI/LSI_SAS_EmbMRAID_SWUG.pdf> and Supermicro's website for
additional inmformation < http://www.supermicro.com/support/manuals/>.
The SC217HD+ chassis contains two individual motherboards in separate node
drawers. Each serverboard node controls a set of twelve hard drives. Note that if
a serverboard node drawer is pulled out of the chassis, the hard drives associated
with that node will power down as well.
Serverboard Drawer Locations in the Chassis
Serverboard A
Controls HDDs A1 through A12
Figure 6-14. Hard Drives and the Corresponding Serverboards
1
A
1
B
Serverboard B
Controls HDDs B1 through B12
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