Server Hardware Owner's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- About Your System
- Using the System Setup Program
- Installing System Components
- Recommended Tools
- Inside the System
- Front Drive Bezel
- Opening the System
- Closing the System
- Removing and Installing Blank Drive EMI Fillers
- Cooling Shrouds
- Power Supplies
- Hard Drives
- Diskette Drive
- Optical and Tape Drives
- Expansion Cards
- SAS Controller Card
- RAID Battery
- Configuring the Boot Device
- RAC Card
- Internal USB Memory Key Connector
- Integrated TOE
- Cooling Fans
- System Memory
- Processors
- System Battery
- Chassis Intrusion Switch
- Power Supply Distribution Board
- SAS/SATA Backplane
- Control Panel (Service-only Procedure)
- System Board (Service Only Procedure)
- Troubleshooting Your System
- Safety First-For You and Your System
- Start-Up Routine
- Checking the Equipment
- Troubleshooting Serial I/O Problems
- Troubleshooting a NIC
- Troubleshooting a Wet System
- Troubleshooting a Damaged System
- Troubleshooting the System Battery
- Troubleshooting Redundant Power Supplies
- Troubleshooting System Cooling Problems
- Troubleshooting System Memory
- Troubleshooting an Internal USB Key
- Troubleshooting a Diskette Drive
- Troubleshooting an Optical Drive
- Troubleshooting a SCSI Tape Drive
- Troubleshooting a Hard Drive
- Troubleshooting a Hot-plug Hard Drive
- Troubleshooting a SAS or SAS RAID Controller
- Troubleshooting Expansion Cards
- Troubleshooting the Microprocessors
- Running the System Diagnostics
- Jumpers and Connectors
- Getting Help
- Glossary
- Index

Installing System Components 85
Figure 3-10. Installing a Hard Drive in a Drive Bracket
NOTICE: SAS drives and SATA drives cannot be mixed in the system. The drives
must be either SATA or SAS hard drives.
NOTE: The SAS or SAS/RAID controller card must be installed in PCIe SLOT2. See
Figure 6-1
.
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Connect the power cable to the hard drive.
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Connect the data cable to the hard drive:
• For connection to the integrated SATA controller (SATA hard drives
only), connect the SATA data cable to the SATA_A (first drive) and
SATA_B (second drive) connectors on the system board. See
Figure 3-11. See Figure 6-1 for the location of the hard drive
connectors on the system board.
• For connection to a SAS or SAS/RAID controller expansion card (SAS
or SATA hard drives), connect the data cables from the controller card
and the power cables as shown in Figure 3-12.
See "Installing a SAS
Controller Card
" on page 111
for instructions about installing the
card.
1 hard drive 2 hard-drive bracket
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