Replacing a hot-plug drive

The hot-plug drives are located at the bottom of the front panel. The hot-plug bay supports as many as six 1-inch high 3.5-inch SCA-II SCSI hard drives.

The hot-plug drives are assigned SCSI ID numbers by the hot-plug backplane with the drive at the far left side of the hot-plug bay assigned SCSI ID 0. The backplane assigns SCSI IDs to the other drives in order up to SCSI ID 5 at the far right side of the hot-plug bay.

Important Gateway tests and verifies the operation and compatibility of the drives it sells. Especially in a hot-plug or mission-critical environment, additional or replacement drives must conform to Gateway standards.

SCSI ID 0

SCSI ID 1

SCSI ID 2

SCSI ID 3

SCSI ID 4

SCSI ID 5

Install the drive in the left-most drive bay first and in increasing order by SCSI ID number thereafter.

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