
Chapter 4: Installing Components
Installing a hot-swap hard drive
Use this procedure to add or replace hard drives in a
The SCSI backplane (and
Gateway tests and verifies the operation and compatibility of the
Important drives it sells. Especially in a
Determining drive status
Each drive carrier has an LED on the front of the server which shows the drive status.
LED condition | Drive status |
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Green flashing | Hard drive is active |
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Orange and | Hard drive is powered on and is rebuilding RAID, or is |
green flashing | powered on and has a fault condition. |
alternately |
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Orange flashing | Hard drive is not powered on and has a fault condition. |
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Unlit | No hard drive is installed in the carrier or a drive is |
| installed but is inactive. |
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The numbers on the left side of the
Important ID and SCSI channel (A or B) of each drive. Install the drives, starting with drive A0, then B0, then A1, B1, A2, B2, and so on.
To install a hot-swap hard drive:
1 If you are installing a new drive, select an empty drive carrier from the
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