Hard Disk Drives; Hard Disk Drive Considerations - IBM 88371RU Maintenance And Troubleshooting Manual

Figure 17. Installing the Remote Supervisor Adapter II SlimLine
7. Push the front of the adapter down, onto the front mounting bracket, until it
8. If you have other options to install or remove, do so now.
9. Go to "Completing the installation" on page 47.

Hard disk drives

This section describes how to install a hard disk drive in the server. Before you
continue with the hard disk drive installation procedures, review "Hard disk drive
considerations."

Hard disk drive considerations

The following notes describe the types of hard disk drives that the server supports
and other information that you must consider when installing a hard disk drive:
v The server supports the following three configurations:
v Both SCSI configuration models of the server come with a hot-swap SCSI
v The SCSI server models support low voltage differential (LVD) hot-swap drives.
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Front mounting
bracket
snaps into place.
– Configuration 1
- Four 2.5-inch hot-swap SCSI hard disk drives
– Configuration 2
- Two 3.5-inch slim hot-swap SCSI hard disk drives
- One 9.5-mm-high DVD-ROM drive (optional)
– Configuration 3
- Two 3.5-inch non-hot-swap (simple swap) Serial ATA (SATA) hard disk
drives
- One 9.5-mm-high DVD-ROM drive (optional)
backplane.
Each hot-swap drive is in a tray, which has a green activity LED and an amber
status LED in the upper-right corner. These LEDs are lit if the drive is active and,
in some cases, if the drive fails.
Remote Supervisor
Adapter II SlimLine assembly
Rear mounting
bracket
Remote Supervisor
Adapter II
SlimLine connector