Hard-Disk Drives

hard-disk drive

hard-disk drive bracket

alignment rails

Figure 4-8. Hard-Disk Drive Removal

left alignment tab

hard-disk-drive mounting screws (4)

right alignment tab (on outside of bracket)

mounting screws (4)

The hard-disk drives are mounted inside a hard-disk drive bracket. The hard- disk drive bracket must be removed before a hard-disk drive can be removed. To remove a hard-disk drive, follow these steps:

1.Lay the computer on its right side.

2.Disconnect the DC power cable and the SCSI interface cable from the back of each hard-disk drive installed in the hard-disk drive bracket.

3.Remove the four mounting screws that attach the hard-disk drive bracket to the front of the computer chassis.

4.Slide the hard-disk drive bracket toward the back of the computer until the alignment tabs disengage from the alignment rails; then lift it out of the computer.

5.Remove the four hard-disk drive mounting screws from the hard-disk drive; then slide the drive out of the bracket.

6.Record the setting of the SCSI address jumpers and SCSI bus termina- tion jumper.

When you reinstall a hard-disk drive, set the SCSI address jumpers and the SCSI bus termination jumper to the settings you recorded. Be sure you position the hard-disk drive against the side and back tabs inside the hard-disk drive bracket (the mounting holes in the hard-disk drive bracket align with the screw holes in the hard-disk drive).

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2100/180 specifications

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