Removing A Hot-Swap Hard Disk Drive; Installing A Simple-Swap Hard Disk Drive - IBM System x3620 M3 7376 Installation And User Manual

If you have other devices to install or remove, do so now. Otherwise, go to
"Completing the installation" on page 83.

Removing a hot-swap hard disk drive

To remove a hot-swap hard disk drive, complete the following steps:
1. Read the safety information that begins on page vii, "Installation guidelines" on
2. Press the release latch on the side of the drive front.
3. Move the handle on the drive to the open position.
4. Pull the hot-swap drive assembly out of the bay approximately 25 mm (1 in.).
If you have other devices to install or remove, do so now. Otherwise, go to
"Completing the installation" on page 83.

Installing a simple-swap hard disk drive

The following notes describe other information that you must consider when you
install a drive.
v To confirm that the server supports the hard disk drive that you are installing, see
v Locate the documentation that comes with the hard disk drive and follow those
v The server supports up to four 3.5-inch simple-swap SATA hard disk drives. For a
Important: Do not install a SCSI hard disk drive in this server.
Note: You might have to reconfigure the disk arrays after you install hard disk
drives. See the RAID documentation on the IBM ServeRAID Support CD for
information about RAID controllers.
page 31, and "Handling static-sensitive devices" on page 33.
Wait approximately 45 seconds while the drive spins down before you remove
the drive assembly completely from the bay.
Note: You might have to reconfigure the disk arrays after you remove a hard
disk drive. See the RAID documentation on the IBM ServeRAID Support CD for
information about RAID controllers.
http://www.ibm.com/systems/info/x86servers/serverproven/compat/us/.
instructions in addition to the instructions in this section.
list of supported hard disk drives, see http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/
serverproven/compat/us/
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