Installation guide

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ESCALA T610 and PL 600T Installation Guide
Handling Static–Sensitive Devices
Attention: Adapters, and disk drives are sensitive to static electricity discharge. These
devices are wrapped in antistatic bags, to prevent this damage.
Take the following precautions:
• If you have an antistatic wrist strap available, use it while handling the device.
• Do not remove the device from the antistatic bag until you are ready to install the device
in the system unit.
• With the device still in its antistatic bag, touch it to a metal frame of the system.
• Grasp cards by the edges. Hold drives by the frame. Avoid touching the solder joints or
pins.
• If you need to lay the device down while it is out of the antistatic bag, lay it on the
antistatic bag. Before picking it up again, touch the antistatic bag and the metal frame of
the system unit at the same time.
• Handle the devices carefully in order to prevent permanent damage.
Hot–Pluggable Options
Note: You do not have to stop the system to install a hot–pluggable option.
The following options are hot–pluggable:
• Hot–pluggable PCI adapters (see the PCI Adapter Placement Reference on Appendix C).
• Hot–pluggable disk drives, also known as hot–swap disk drives.
Stopping the System Unit
Attention: When shutting down your system to install options, shut down all applications
first and then shut down the operating system. The system power turns off and the system
goes into Standby mode when the operating system is shut down. Before removing power
from the system unit, ensure that the shut down process is complete. Failure to do so can
result in the loss of data. Some option–installation procedures do not require the system to
be stopped for installation. If necessary, the option–installation procedures in this section will
direct you here if stopping the system is required.
1. Log in to the system as root.
2. Stop any applications that are running on the system.
3. At a command line, type shutdown to stop the operating system.
4. After you shut down the operating system, set the power switches of any attached
devices to Off.
5. The shut down procedure stops the operating system, removes power from parts of the
system, and puts the system into Standby mode.