Installing And Removing Drives; Removing And Installing An Optical Drive - Gateway E-9525R 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 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 six
SAS/SATA hot-swap hard drives. An optional tape backup drive and an optional
diskette drive can also be added.
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 30. Make sure that you turn off the server, then unplug the power
cord(s) and all other cables connected to the server.
Unlock the bezel (if necessary) and remove it by pulling it from the chassis.
2
Follow the instructions in
3
Remove the large fan cage by following the instructions in
4
system fans" on page
Disconnect the 44-pin optical drive cable from the optical drive interface
5
board.
Loosen the thumbscrew (1) holding the media cage in the chassis, then
6
push the assembly (2) out the front of the chassis.
"Preventing static electricity discharge" on
"Opening the server case" on page
46.
Installing and removing drives
31.
"Replacing
33