Hot-Plug For Hard Disk Drives - Cisco C880 M4 Operating Manual

5.Hard Disk Drives

5.3. Hot-Plug for Hard Disk Drives

CAUTION!
Before replacing an hard disk drive: To ensure the replacing of the correct hard disk drive, switch on
the blinking of the amber Fault LED
depending hard disk drive by ServerView RAID.
If you want to replace an SAS hard disk drive during operation, proceed as follows:
If you want to pull out a hard disk drive which is not defective, you must
ensure that no reading or writing access to this hard disk drive is possible.
Pull the hard disk drive (defective/not defective) out by a few centimeters.
Wait for at least 60 seconds.
This period is necessary for the Host Bus Adapter to recognize that a hard disk drive has been
pulled out and for the hard disk drive to come to a stop.
Pull the hard disk drive right out.
Insert the new hard disk drive.
When you have removed the hard disk drive and are not fitting any replacement, then fit a blank insert into
the blank bay. Ensure that the blank insert engages in the bay correctly.
(section "
Status LEDs of the Hard Disk Drives
" on page
14) of the
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