Specifications
Removal and replacement procedures 25
Hard drives (SCSI)
CAUTION: To prevent improper cooling and thermal damage, do not operate the server unless all bays
are populated with either a component or a blank.
1. Unlock and open the front bezel ("Front bezel" on page 19) (tower servers only).
2. Determine the status of the hard drive from the hot-plug hard drive LEDs ("Hot-plug SCSI hard drive
LEDs" on page 72, "SATA or SAS hard drive LEDs" on page 73).
3. Back up all server data on the hard drive.
4. Remove the hard drive.
To replace the component, reverse the removal procedure.
Hard drive cage (SCSI)
1. Power down the server (on page 16).
2. Unlock and open the front bezel ("Front bezel" on page 19) (tower servers only).
3. Remove the rack bezel (rack servers only) ("Rack bezel" on page 20).
4. Extend or remove the server from the rack ("Extending the server from the rack" on page 16).
5. Remove the access panel ("Access panel" on page 20).
6. Remove all hard drive blanks ("Hard drive blank (SCSI)" on page 24).
7. Remove all hot-plug SCSI hard drives ("Hard drives (SCSI)" on page 25).
8. If using the duplex SCSI board option, remove the duplex SCSI board (on page 45).
9. Disconnect the point-to-point SCSI cable from the SCSI hard drive backplane.