Installing And Removing Drives; Removing And Installing An Optical Drive - Gateway Server E-9520T User Manual

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Installing and removing drives

Removing and installing an optical drive

The optical drive is not hot-swappable.
Before installing or removing the drive,
make sure that power is turned off and
the power cord(s) is unplugged.
Important
The hard drive carriers shown in these
illustrations may look different than the
actual hard drive carriers in your server.
Your server's basic configuration includes one optical drive and as many as 10
3.5-inch SATA or SAS hot-swap hard drives. You can also add an optional diskette
drive.
As you prepare to install drives, remember:
Before you install a drive, see the drive's documentation for information
■
on configuring the drive, setting drive jumpers, and attaching cables.
You may need to configure the drives you install using the BIOS Setup
■
utility. Press F2 at startup to open the BIOS Setup utility.
To remove and install an optical drive:
Follow the instructions in
Caution 1
page 28. Make sure that you turn off the server, then unplug the power
cord(s) and all other cables connected to the server.
Follow the instructions in
2
Unlock the bezel (if necessary) and remove it by pulling it from the chassis.
3
Remove the data and power cables from the back of the optical drive.
4
If you are removing the optical drive from the tower configuration, rotate
5
the release latch (1) counter-clockwise and pull the optical drive (2) out
of the chassis.
- OR -
Installing and removing drives
"Preventing static electricity discharge" on
"Opening the server case" on page 29.
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