General Installation Guidelines; Removing A Cabled Hard Drive; Configuring The Boot Drive - Dell PowerEdge 850 Installation And Troubleshooting Manual

17. Install the bezel. See "Installing the
18. Reconnect the system to its electrical outlet and turn the system on, including any attached peripherals.
19. Test the drive.
If you installed an IDE device, run the IDE devices tests in the system diagnostics to determine whether the device operates properly. See
System Diagnostics."
If you installed a SCSI device, run the SCSI controllers test in the system diagnostics. See
If you installed a tape drive, see the tape drive software documentation to perform a backup and verification test.
Hard Drives
Your system can contain up to four 1-inch SATA or SCSI hard drives in a optional removable hard-drive bay (see Figure 7-5). These drives connect either to the
system board or to an optional controller card.

General Installation Guidelines

Use the following guidelines when installing hard drives:
You should only use drives that have been tested and approved by the system manufacturer.
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Do not install a mixture of SATA and SCSI hard drives. All hard drives must either be SCSI drives or SATA drives.
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You may need to use different programs than those provided with the operating system to partition and format a hard drive. See the hard drive's
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documentation for information on setting up the drive.
When you format a high-capacity hard drive, allow enough time for the formatting to be completed. Long format times for these drives are normal. For
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example, a large drive can take over an hour to format.
Do not turn off or reboot your system while the drive is being formatted. Doing so can cause a drive failure.
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NOTE: The hard-drive activity indicator operates only when SATA hard drives are connected directly to the SATA port connectors on the system board.
The indicator does not operate with SCSI drives or SATA drives that are attached to a RAID controller card. To identify the indicator, see Figure 2-1.

Configuring the Boot Drive

The drive or device from which the system boots is determined by the boot order specified in the System Setup program (see "Using the System Setup
Program" in your User's Guide). To boot the system from a hard drive or drive array, the drive(s) must be connected to the appropriate controller:
To boot from a single SATA hard drive, the master drive (drive 0) must be connected to the SATA_0 connector on the system board. To identify system
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board connectors, see Figure A-3.
To boot from a single SCSI hard drive, the drive must be connected to a SCSI controller card. See the documentation that accompanied the controller
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card.
Cabled SATA and SCSI Hard Drives

Removing a Cabled Hard Drive

CAUTION: See your Product Information Guide for complete information about safety precautions, working inside the computer, and protecting
against electrostatic discharge.
1. Turn off the system, including any attached peripherals, and disconnect the system from the electrical outlet.
2. Remove the bezel. See "Removing the
3. Lay the system on its right side.
4. Remove the cover. See "Removing the
5. Remove the cooling shroud. See
6. Disconnect the interface and power cables to the hard drives in the drive bay.
Bezel" in "Troubleshooting Your System."
Bezel" in "Troubleshooting Your System."
Cover" in "Troubleshooting Your System."
"Removing the Cooling Shroud" in "Installing System Components."
"Running the System Diagnostics."
"Running the