NEC LC1400 manual Installing or Swapping a Hard Disk Drive in a Hot-swap Bay

Installing or Swapping a Hard Disk Drive in a Hot-swap Bay

This procedure describes installing a new drive or swapping out a faulty drive from one of the seven hot-swap SCSI disk drive bays. The 3 1/2-inch SCSI drives must use the industry standard 80-pin Single Connector Attachment (SCA) connector. Each drive must be installed in a drive carrier.

Note: To order a carrier, contact your sales representative or dealer.

nIf installing new drives, follow an installation scheme starting with the bottom drive. Fill the bays bottom to top.

nIf an individual SCSI drive fault LED (yellow light) is on steadily, this indicates that the drive has been flagged as faulty by the SCSI host controller. Follow the procedure described in this section to remove the faulty drive and swap in a good one.

Note: ESD can damage disk drives, boards, and other parts. This system can withstand normal levels of environmental ESD while you are hot-swapping SCSI hard drives. However, we recommend that you do all procedures in this chapter only at an ESD workstation or provide some ESD protection by wearing an antistatic wrist strap attached to chassis ground⎯any unpainted metal surface⎯on your system when handling parts.

CAUTION

Drive manufacturer's caution against moving a disk drive that is still spinning because of possible damage to the drive.

After you determine which drive has been flagged as faulty, the procedure is the same to swap a drive or to install one for the first time.

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