Replacing A Tape Blade Chassis Or Tape Drive; Before You Replace A Part; Replacing The Tape Drive; Remove The Tape Drive - HP EH920A - StorageWorks Ultrium 1760 Tape Drive User Manual

10 Replacing a tape blade chassis
or tape drive
In this chapter:
• Before you replace a
• Replacing the tape
• Replacing the tape blade
• Returning the faulty

Before you replace a part

1. Unpack your replacement part and retain the packaging.
2.
Remove the data cartridge from the tape drive.
There are two customer replaceable parts:
• The tape drive, see
The replacement tape drive does not include cables or mounting rails.
• The tape blade chassis that encloses the tape drive, see
"Replacing the tape blade
The partner server blade must be powered down before you replace a tape blade chassis or
a tape drive. The replacement chassis is supplied with cables and all tape blade components,
apart from the tape drive and its mounting rails and the coupler plate.

Replacing the tape drive

There are four stages to this process:
• Power down the tape blade
• Remove the faulty tape drive from the tape blade chassis and remove its mounting rails
• Attach the mounting rails to the replacement tape drive and install it in the tape blade
• Power up the tape blade.

Remove the tape drive

1.
Power down the partner server blade. This powers down the tape blade, see
"Powering the tape blade on and
NOTE:
Do not power down the partner server blade and remove power from the drive during
read, write, fast-search, load and unload activities.
2.
Press the mounting rails in towards the tape drive and slowly pull the tape drive away from the
chassis until the power and data cables become accessible. If you pull too hard on the tape drive,
you may disturb the cable routing and will not be able to install the replacement drive without
removing the chassis cover, as described in
part, page 53
drive, page 53
chassis, page 57
part, page 63
"Replacing the tape drive" on page 53.
chassis" on page 57.
off" on page 28.
"Replacing the tape blade chassis" on page 57.
Tape Blade
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