Removing A 2.5-Inch Hot-Swap Hard Disk Drive - IBM 7383 Installation And Service Manual

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Removing a 2.5-inch hot-swap hard disk drive

Use this information to remove a 2.5-inch hot-swap hard disk drive.
Before you begin
Read the safety information in "Safety" on page vii and "Installation guidelines"
on page 34.
Attention: Static electricity that is released to internal server components when
the server is powered-on might cause the server to halt, which might result in the
loss of data. To avoid this potential problem, always use an electrostatic-discharge
wrist strap or other grounding system when you work inside the server with the
power on.
About this task
To remove a 2.5-inch hot-swap hard disk drive, complete the following steps.
Procedure
1. Unlock the left-side cover.
2. Open the bezel (see "Opening the bezel media door" on page 37).
3. Press down on the release latch to open the drive handle; then, pull the drive
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the documentation that comes with the drive.
any switches or jumpers on the drive. If you are installing a SAS or SATA
device, be sure to set the SAS or SATA ID for that device.
removable-media drives. You can install removable-media drives only in bays 1
and 2 on models with eight 3.5-inch, eight, sixteen, twenty-four, and thirty-two
2.5-inch hard disk drives.
protected by having all bays and PCI slots covered or occupied. When you
install a drive or PCI adapter, save the EMC shield and filler panel from the bay
or the PCI adapter slot cover in the event that you later remove the drive or
adapter.
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Note: You must unlock the left-side cover to open or remove the bezel. When
you lock the left-side cover, it locks both the cover and the bezel.
out of the drive bay.