Chapter 4: Installing Components

Installing a hot-swap hard drive

Use this procedure to add or replace hard drives in a hot-swap drive bay. Your server has room for as many as ten hot-swap drive carriers and each drive carrier holds a 1-inch high, Ultra320 SCSI, SCA-type hard drive, running at 15,000 RPM or slower.

The SCSI backplane (and hot-swap drive bays) support only LVD (Low Voltage Differential) drives. However, the external SCSI connector (on the back of the server) also supports SE (Single Ended) drives. (You can purchase additional drives through your Gateway sales representative.

Gateway tests and verifies the operation and compatibility of the

Important drives it sells. Especially in a hot-swap or mission-critical environment, additional or replacement drives must conform to Gateway standards.

Determining drive status

Each drive carrier has an LED on the front of the server which shows the drive status.

LED conditionDrive status

 

 

Green flashing

Hard drive is active

 

 

Orange and

Hard drive is powered on and is rebuilding RAID, or is

green flashing

powered on and has a fault condition.

alternately

 

 

 

Orange flashing

Hard drive is not powered on and has a fault condition.

 

 

Unlit

No hard drive is installed in the carrier or a drive is

 

installed but is inactive.

 

 

The numbers on the left side of the hot-swap bays identify the SCSI

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 hot-swap drive bays.

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