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2.3.2Hot-swap Hard Disk Drive and Peripheral Device Bays
The hard disk drive and peripheral device bays can accommodate the following devices:
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Note: Cooling and EMI constraints do not allow installation of an IDE hard disk drive in the tape device bay.
The SCSI Backplane Board supports Low Voltage Differential (LVD) SCSI drives only.
The optical drive and SCSI tape device(s) are not
Because hard disk drives have different cooling, power, and vibration characteristics, Intel will validate specific hard disk drive types in the Server Platform SR6850HW4. See the Intel Server Board Set SE8500HW4 Tested Hardware and Operating System List for the qualified drives.
The hard disk drive carriers supplied with the system accommodate
The SCSI Backplane Board contains a dual color LED for each hard drive to display status. The LED signal is transmitted to the front of the system via a light pipe integrated in the hard drive carrier.
Due to the required cable length and bus performance, the Server Board Set SE8500HW4 Mainboard contains a Serial ATA (SATA) connecter instead of a Parallel ATA (PATA) connector. The optical drive connects to the
See Chapter 7 for a description of the SCSI Backplane Board. See Chapter 9 for descriptions of the
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