Internal drives removal and installation - Netfinity 5100

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Installing Internal Drives in the Netfinity 5100
Different types of drives allow your system to read multiple types of media and store more data. Several types of drives are available, such as:

• Diskette drive (already installed)
• Hard Disk Drives
• CD-ROM drive (already installed)
• Tape Drives

The bays of the Netfinity 5100 are in the front of the server, as shown in the following illustrations:

NOTE: If you are going to install additional drives in the non-hot-swap bays, you must install the power supply back-plane option and additional power supplies. Compatible Power Option part numbers

Netfinity 5100 Bay Locations (Tower Models):

ID# Description: 1 Non-hot-swap bay D (with Diskette drive preinstalled) 2 SCSI ID 0 3 Hard disk activity light 4 Hard disk status light 5 SCSI ID 2 6 SCSI ID 3 7 SCSI ID 4 8 SCSI ID 8 9 SCSI ID 9 10 Hot swap bays (6) 11 Non-hot-swap bay C (with CD-ROM drive preinstalled) 12 Non-hot-swap bay B 13 Non-hot-swap bay A

Netfinity 5100 Bay Locations (Rack Models):

ID# Description: 1 SCSI ID 9 2 Non-hot-swap bay B 3 Non-hot-swap bay C 4 Non-hot-swap bay A (with CD-ROM drive preinstalled) 5 Non-hot-swap bay D (with Diskette drive preinstalled) 6 Hard disk activity light 7 Hard disk status light 8 SCSI ID 5 9 SCSI ID 4 10 SCSI ID 3 11 SCSI ID 1 12 SCSI ID 0 13 Hot swap bays (6)

Hot-swap drives:
Your server contains hardware that lets you continue to operate your system while a hard disk drive is removed or installed. These drives are known as hot-swappable drives. They are also referred to as hot-swap drives. Each hot-swap drive that you plan to install must have a hot-swap drive tray attached. The drive must have a single connector attachment (SCA) connector. Hot-swap-drive trays come with the hot-swap drives.

• Your server supports six slim (1-inch) or three half-high (1.6-inch), 3.5-inch hot-swap hard disk drives in the hot-swap bays.
• The hot-swap bays connect to a SCSI backplane. This backplane is the printed circuit board behind the bay.
• The backplane controls the SCSI IDs for the hot swap drives.

Non-hot-swap drives:
Diskette drives, tape drives, and CD-ROM drives are non-hot-swap drives. To remove or install a non-hot swap drive, you must turn off the server first.

• Non-hot-swap drives are installed in bays A, B, C, and D only.
• Your server comes with a preinstalled 3.5-inch, 1.44 MB diskette drive in bay D and a preinstalled IDE CD-ROM drive in bay C.
• The Netfinity 5100 server supports only one diskette drive.
• The diskette drive uses 1 MB and 2 MB diskettes. For optimum use, format 1 MB diskettes to 720 KB and format 2 MB diskettes to 1.44 MB.
• Bays A and B come without a device installed. These bays are for 5.25-inch, half-high, removable-media drives, such as tape backup drives. You can combine bays A and B into a single full-high bay.
• If you are installing a device with a 50-pin connector in one of the empty non-hot-swap bays (bays AB), you need a 68-pin to 50-pin converter. To order the converter, contact your IBM reseller or IBM marketing representative. Note: The server's EMI integrity and cooling are both protected by having bays A and B 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.

Installing a hot-swap drive:
You do not have to turn off the server to remove or install the hot-swap drives. Before you install drives in your server, verify that you have all the cables and any other equipment specified in the documentation that comes with the internal drive. You might also need to perform certain preinstallation activities. Some of the steps are required only during the initial installation of an option.

ID# Description: 1 Filler panel tray for use with half-high drives 2 Slim filler bezel 3 Hot-Swap Hard disk drive 4 Drive tray 5 Drive tray handle (in open position)

1. Read Safety information and Handling static sensitive devices in your Users Guide, or in the Hardware Maintenance Manual, and also read the documentation that comes with your drive.
2. Choose the bay in which you want to install the drive. (See "Bay Locations" above).
3. To maintain proper system cooling, do not operate the server for more than two minutes without either a drive or a filler panel installed for each bay.
4. Check the instructions that come with the drive to see if you need to set any switches or jumpers on the drive.
5. If your hard disk drive is not installed on the drive tray, place the drive in the drive tray and, being careful not to over-tighten the screws, attach the drive to the tray using the four screws provided with the option kit.
6. Remove the filler panel from one of the empty hot-swap bays by inserting your finger into the depression at the left side of the filler panel and pulling it away from the server. If you are installing a half-high hard disk drive, you will need to remove two adjacent filler panels. The two filler panels should be from either the top pair of bays, themiddle pair of bays, or the bottom pair of bays.
7. Ensure the tray handle is open (that is, perpendicular to the drive).
8. Align the rails on the drive/tray assembly with the guide rails in the drive bay.
9. Gently push the drive/tray assembly into the bay until the drive connects to the backplane.
10. Push the tray handle toward the closed position until it locks the drive in place.
11. If you installed a half-high hard disk drive, install a filler panel in the gap above the drive:
    
    a. Locate the slim filler bezel that is designed for use with half-high drives. It is stored on the empty tray of the filler panel that you removed earlier in this procedure.
    b. Pull the slim filler bezel off the filler panel.
    c. Gently push the slim filler bezel into place in the gap above the drive.
    
    
12. Check the hard disk drive status indicators to verify that the hard disk drives are operating properly:
    
    - When the amber light is on continuously, the drive has failed.
    - When the amber light flashes slowly (one flash per second), the drive is being rebuilt.
    - When the amber light flashes rapidly (three flashes per second), the controller is identifying the drive.
    - If you have a RAID adapter installed, when the green Activity light is on continuously the drive is ready.
    - If your server has a RAID adapter installed, refer to the information provided with the RAID adapter for adding a drive.
    
    
13. Installation is complete.

Replacing a drive in a hot-swap bay:
You do not have to turn off the server to remove or install the hot-swap drives.

1. Before you remove a hot-swap hard disk drive that is not defective, back up all important data.
2. To avoid damage to a hard disk drive, DO NOT remove the drive from the hot-swap bay until it has had time to spin down (approximately 30 seconds). Handle the drive carefully.
3. Before you hot-swap a drive, make sure it is defective. If you partially or completely remove a good drive instead of a defective one, your server might lose valuable data. This situation is especially relevant if your server has a RAID adapter installed and you assigned RAID level 1 or 5 to the logical drives in your disk array. The RAID adapter can rebuild the data that you need, provided that certain conditions are met. Refer to the information provided with the RAID adapter for further details. Refer to the following illustration of the tower model while you perform the steps in this procedure.
4. Read the documentation that comes with your drive.
5. If your server has a RAID adapter installed, review the information provided with the RAID adapter for how to replacing a drive.
6. If your server is a tower model, unlock and open the server door. Attention: To maintain proper system cooling, do not operate the server for more than two minutes without either a drive or a filler panel installed for each bay.
7. Locate the defective drive (look for an amber Hard Disk Status light on the front of the drive).
8. Remove the defective hard disk drive by moving the handle on the drive to the open position (perpendicular to the drive), and pulling the hot-swap tray from the bay.
9. Remove the four screws that attach the drive to the hot-swap tray, and remove the drive from the tray.
10. Place the new hard disk drive on the hot-swap tray and, being careful not to over-tighten the screws, attach the drive to the tray using four screws.
11. Continue at Step 7 of "Installing a hot-swap drive" to install the hard disk drive in the hot-swap bay (above).

Installing a non-hot-swap drive:

NOTE: If you are going to install additional drives in the non-hot-swap bays, you must install the power supply back-plane option and additional power supplies. 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. Compatible Power Option part numbers

ID# Description: 1 Non-hot-swap bay 2 Blue slide rails 3 Filler panel 4 Non-hot-swap drive 5 Slide rails

1. Read Safety information and Handling static sensitive devices in your Users Guide, or in the Hardware Maintenance Manual, and also read the documentation that comes with your drive.
2. Choose the bay in which you want to install the drive. (See "Bay Locations" above).
3. To maintain proper system cooling, do not operate the server for more than two minutes without either a drive or a filler panel installed for each bay.
4. Check the instructions that come with the drive to see if you need to set any switches or jumpers on the drive.
5. Turn off the server and peripheral devices and then remove the cover and the bezel
6. Remove the filler panel from the bay opening by pulling the filler panel away from the server. You do not need the filler panel when you have a drive installed in the bay.
7. 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 static-protective surface.
8. Set any jumpers or switches on the drive according to the documentation that comes with the drive.
9. Install rails on the drive:
   - If you are installing a standard-size drive: Pull the blue slide rails off the back of the filler panel, then clip the rails onto the sides of the drive.
   - 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.
10. Align the rails on the drive with the guide rails in the drive bay.
11. Push the drive into the bay until it clicks into place.
12. If the drive is an IDE device:
    a) Make sure the drive is not a hard disk drive.
    b) Plug a connector on the IDE cable into the back of the drive.
    c) Make sure the other end of the IDE cable is plugged into the IDE connector on the system board.
    d) Go to step 14 (connecting a power cable).
13. If the drive is a SCSI device:
    a. Make sure the drive is not a hard disk drive.
    b. 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 your SCSI device.
    c. Connect one of the connectors on the SCSI cable to the back of the drive.
    d. 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. See System board internal cable connectors on page 53 for the location of the SCSI connectors. See also SCSI ports on page 96 for information about SCSI connections and devices.
14. Connect a power cable to the back of the drive. Power cables for non-hot-swap drives come installed in your server. The connectors are keyed and can be inserted only one way.
15. If you are installing another non-hot-swap drive, do so at this time. Otherwise, continue with the next step.
16. If you have other options to install or remove, do so now; otherwise, replace the cover.
17. Installation is complete.