Removing or Installing Device Rails
The 5 1/4-inch bays are for use with devices that have tabbed rails. These
rails allow a device to be easily inserted and removed from your system.
If you remove a device from your system, always save the rails, right in
the bay if the bay is empty, to use on a replacement device.
Remove a rail by removing the two or three screws that secure it to the
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side of the device.
Secure each rail to the new device with the screws (two or three to a
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side) from the old device.
Locating the screws for 5 1/4-Inch device rails
A – Screw or Locking Pin
Removing a 5 1/4-Inch Accessible Device
Remove the system unit cover and front panel (see "Removing the
1.
Cover" and "Removing the Front Panel").
power and unplug the system power cable. Power is removed only when
the power cable is unplugged.
Tag and unplug the power and signal cables connected to the device.
2.
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B – Device Rail
Before removing the cover, turn off system