3.5-Inch Hard Disk Drive - NEC Express5800/340Hb-R N8800-047F User Manual

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3.5-INCH HARD DISK DRIVE

The 3.5-inch hard disk drive bay in front of the server contains six slots in which hard disks with the
SCA2 interface are installed.
IMPORTANT:
You may conduct the installation, removal and replacement of hard disk drive by yourself.
However, if you are not familiar with procedures, NEC recommends that you request a
maintenance engineer of your service representative having the expert knowledge on the
server to do the installation and removal procedures.
Do not use any hard disk drives that are not authorized by NEC. Installing a third-party
hard disk drive may cause a failure of the server as well as the hard disk drive. Purchase the
hard disks of the same model in pair. Contact your service representative for hard disk
drives optimum for your server.
The OS starts from the hard disk that is mounted in Slot 1 of the primary module (whose
POWER LED is on).
When the PCI module operates in simplex mode (not in duplex mode), the mirroring
feature of the hard disk drive may be disabled at OS shutdown. OS will fail to start at
rebooting the server because the mirroring is disabled at the PCI module being offline (see
Chapter 7). Boot the server from the hard disk drive in PCI module that was in online state
at the OS shutdown.
A SCSI controller error having sraql160 as its source may sometimes be recorded in the
system event log. This error is likely to be issued when the hard disk drive processing
cannot keep up in time with requests of the OS, but the processing is carried on normally
thanks to the retry function. So, this does not affect the operation at all. In case such an
error is issued, check the detailed data indicated below, and if it is "f0030004" or
"f0030015," just ignore that log.
If, however, a SCSI controller error whose detailed data is "f0030004" or "f0030015" is
recorded repeatedly (ten times or more in a week time as a rough guide), a hard disk drive
failure is suspected. Contact the maintenance personnel in such a case.
Description:
The driver detected a controller error
on \Device\Scsi\sraql160x
[x is a numeral as 1 or 2 for example.]
In the case where the detailed data of
the above event properties is
represented in words, the error
represents no trouble if the value from
0034: is "f0030004" or "f0030015".