Installing hard drives - Netfinity 5100

Resolving The Problem

Note: The server's EMI integrity and cooling are both protected by having the non-hot-swap bays covered or occupied. When you install a drive, save the filler panel from the bay, in case you later remove the drive and do not replace it with another.

1. Non-hot-swap bay
2. Blue slide rails
3. Filler panel
4. Non hot-swap drive
5. Slide rails

Installing a non hot-swap drive in one of the non hot-swap bays

1. Turn off the server and peripheral devices and then remove the cover and the bezel.
2. Remove the filler panel from the bay opening by pulling the filler panel away from the server.
3. You do not need the filler panel when you have a drive installed in the bay.
4. Touch the static-protective bag containing the drive to any unpainted metal surface on the server; then, remove the drive from the bag and place it on a staticprotective surface.
5. Set any jumpers or switches on the drive according to the documentation that comes with the drive.
6. Install rails on the drive.
   1. If you are installing a standard-size drive:
      1. Pull the blue slide rails off the back of the filler panel.
      2. Clip the rails onto the sides of the drive.
         
         
   2. If you are installing a digital linear tape (DLT) backup drive, the slide rails and screws are included in the optional power supply backplane kit.
      
      
7. Align the rails on the drive with the guide rails in the drive bay.
8. Push the drive into the bay until it clicks into place.
9. If the drive is an IDE device:
   1. Make sure the drive is not a hard disk drive.
   2. Plug a connector on the IDE cable into the back of the drive.
   3. Make sure the other end of the IDE cable is plugged into the IDE connector on the system board.
   4. Go to step 11.
      
      
10. If the drive is a SCSI device:
    1. Make sure the drive is not a hard disk drive.
    2. Obtain a 16-bit SCSI cable to connect the device to the connector for SCSI channel B on the system board, or to an optional SCSI adapter. A suitable cable usually comes with the SCSI device.
    3. Connect one of the connectors on the SCSI cable to the back of the drive.
    4. Connect the other end of the SCSI cable to the SCSI channel B connector on the system board, or to an optional SCSI adapter, as appropriate.
       
       
11. Connect a power cable to the back of the drive.
12. Power cables for non-hot-swap drives come installed in the server.
13. The connectors are keyed and can be inserted only one way.
14. Install any other non hot-swap drives.
15. Replace the cover.