Installing Or Swapping A Hard Disk Drive - NEC LC1400 Service & Reference Manual

Installing or Swapping a Hard Disk Drive

1. Open the front door as described earlier in this chapter.
2. If installing a hard disk drive in a disk carrier for the first time, perform the
following procedures:
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Pull the handle (A) out of the disk carrier's front panel and remove the
carrier's front panel from the SCSI hard disk drive bay.
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Remove the two screws securing the retainer (B) to the back of the front
panel and remove the retainer. Save the disk carrier's front panel retainer
and two screws for future use.
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Go to step 5.
3. If swapping a hard disk drive, remove its carrier from the SCSI hard disk
drive bay and perform the following procedures:
Depending on the drive fault, the drive may be still spinning
when you remove it. Follow the next steps exactly when
removing drives.
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Pull the disk carrier handle out.
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Pull the faulty disk drive out of the bay far enough to disengage the drive
connector from the backplane. Wait 30 seconds until the drive spins
down.
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Remove the carrier from of the drive bay.
4. Remove the hard disk drive from the disk carrier.
Removing the Disk Carrier's Front Panel
CAUTION
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