continues normal operations. You can replace the failed drive and rebuild its contents on an equivalent replacement drive automatically, without shutting down the system.

Figure 9: RAID Cage

SCSI backplane components

The SCSI backplane connects the SCA-2 LVD SCSI drives to the SCSI RAID controller or the SCSI controllers on the system board. The backplane provides automatic SCSI address setting and allows hot-swapping of SCSI drives. Figure 10 shows the back of the backplane where the drives connect.

Figure 10: The Back of the SCSI Backplane

If the RAID cage is included as part of the server configuration, see the Quick Hot-swap Installation Guide for information on how to configure the quick hot-swap backplane.

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