Replacing a hot-plug drive

The hot-plug drives are located along the bottom edge of the front panel as you face the system. The hot-plug bay supports as many as three 1-inch high, 3.5-inch SCSI hard drives.

The hot-plug drives are assigned SCSI ID numbers by the hot-plug backplane with the drive on the left end of the hot-plug bay assigned SCSI ID 0. The backplane assigns SCSI IDs to the other drives in order up to SCSI ID 2 at the right end of the hot-plug bay. See “Hot-plug backplane” on page 8 for the locations of the drives by SCSI ID number.

Important Gateway tests and verifies the operation and compatibility of the drives we sell. Additional or replacement drives must conform to Gateway standards, especially in a RAID or mission-critical environment.

Install the first drive in the left bay, then install drives in increasing order by SCSI ID number thereafter.

To replace a failed drive:

1Before you remove the failed drive, use the appropriate software and utilities installed on the system to stop all activity on the SCSI bus. Instructions for using the software are provided by the software manufacturer.

2Use the utilities or look at the drive indicator LEDs on the front panel to determine which drive needs to be replaced.

Replacing and Adding Internal Devices

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