Identifying Guide Screws; Installing A Half-Height Or Full-Height Media Device - HP ProLiant ML350 User Manual

Identifying guide screws

When installing drives in the removable media bay, guide screws must be installed to make sure the
drives correctly align in the drive cage. HP has provided extra guide screws, located behind the side
access panel. Depending on the option, use 5.25 M3 metric screws or HD 6-32 shipping screws. The
metric screws supplied by HP are black.

Installing a half-height or full-height media device

The server includes five removable media bays. The server ships with an optical drive and the other four
bays are vacant. You can install two full-height removable or up to four additional half-height media
devices in the removable media cage. To install a half-height or full-height media device:
Power down the server (on page 17).
1.
Do one of the following:
2.
Open or remove the tower bezel, as needed
o
Extend the server from the rack (on page 17).
o
Remove the access panel (on page 19).
3.
Remove the media bay blank
4.
Install the guide screws
5.
Slide the drive into the bay until it clicks into place.
6.
("Accessing the removable media
("Identifying guide screws" on page 42), if applicable.
("Open or remove the tower
cage" on page 40).
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bezel" on page 18).