IBM RS/6000 manual Handling Static-Sensitive Devices

Handling Static-Sensitive Devices

Attention: Adapters, planars, diskette drives, and disk drives are se electricity discharge. These devices are wrapped in antistatic ba illustration below, to prevent this damage.

Take the following precautions:

Ÿ If you have an antistatic wrist strap available, use it while

ŸDo not remove the device from the antistatic bag until you are

device in the system unit.

Ÿ

With

the device

still

in

its

antistatic

bag,

touch it to a met

Ÿ

Grasp

cards

and boards by the edges.

Hold

drives

by

the fr

the solder

joints

or

pins.

Ÿ

If you need to lay

the

device down

while

it

is

out

of

the

the antistatic bag. Before picking it

up again, touch the antis

metal

frame

of the system unit at the

same

time.

Ÿ

Handle

the

devices carefully

in order

to

prevent

permanent

damag

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