Dell PowerEdge 2300 Installation and Troubleshooting Guide - Page 126

Qvhuwv - how to remove hard drive

Get Dell PowerEdge 2300 PDF manuals and user guides View all Dell PowerEdge 2300 manuals
Add to My Manuals
Save this manual to your list of manuals

Page 126 highlights

This chapter describes how to install the following options: Drives that use the computer's on-board diskette drive controller Drives that use the computer's on-board Ultra/Narrow SCSI controller Tape drives that use a controller card NOTE: If you are installing a SCSI hard-disk drive, see Chapter 10, "Installing Hard-Disk Drives." To remove or install drives in the external bays, you must remove the computer covers and front bezel according to the instructions in "Removing the Computer Covers" in Chapter 7. To protect the inside of the computer from foreign particles, a plastic front-panel insert covers each empty external drive bay. Before you install a drive in an empty bay, you must first remove the front-panel insert. Whenever you remove a drive, be sure to replace the front-panel insert over the empty bay. To remove the front-panel insert for a drive bay you intend to use, first remove the front bezel as instructed in "Removing the Computer Covers" in Chapter 7. Then, facing the inside of the front bezel, press against the center of the insert with your thumbs until the insert bows sufficiently to loosen the tabs on the sides of the insert. Pull the insert out of the bezel. To replace a front-panel insert, position the insert over the bay opening from the inside of the front bezel and carefully press the insert into place. A tab on each side of the insert snaps into a corresponding latch on the inside of the front bezel. 9-2 Dell PowerEdge 2300 Systems Installation and Troubleshooting Guide

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
  • 13
  • 14
  • 15
  • 16
  • 17
  • 18
  • 19
  • 20
  • 21
  • 22
  • 23
  • 24
  • 25
  • 26
  • 27
  • 28
  • 29
  • 30
  • 31
  • 32
  • 33
  • 34
  • 35
  • 36
  • 37
  • 38
  • 39
  • 40
  • 41
  • 42
  • 43
  • 44
  • 45
  • 46
  • 47
  • 48
  • 49
  • 50
  • 51
  • 52
  • 53
  • 54
  • 55
  • 56
  • 57
  • 58
  • 59
  • 60
  • 61
  • 62
  • 63
  • 64
  • 65
  • 66
  • 67
  • 68
  • 69
  • 70
  • 71
  • 72
  • 73
  • 74
  • 75
  • 76
  • 77
  • 78
  • 79
  • 80
  • 81
  • 82
  • 83
  • 84
  • 85
  • 86
  • 87
  • 88
  • 89
  • 90
  • 91
  • 92
  • 93
  • 94
  • 95
  • 96
  • 97
  • 98
  • 99
  • 100
  • 101
  • 102
  • 103
  • 104
  • 105
  • 106
  • 107
  • 108
  • 109
  • 110
  • 111
  • 112
  • 113
  • 114
  • 115
  • 116
  • 117
  • 118
  • 119
  • 120
  • 121
  • 122
  • 123
  • 124
  • 125
  • 126
  • 127
  • 128
  • 129
  • 130
  • 131
  • 132
  • 133
  • 134
  • 135
  • 136
  • 137
  • 138
  • 139
  • 140
  • 141
  • 142
  • 143
  • 144
  • 145
  • 146
  • 147
  • 148
  • 149
  • 150
  • 151
  • 152
  • 153
  • 154
  • 155
  • 156
  • 157
  • 158
  • 159
  • 160
  • 161
  • 162
  • 163
  • 164
  • 165
  • 166
  • 167
  • 168
  • 169
  • 170
  • 171
  • 172
  • 173
  • 174
  • 175
  • 176
  • 177
  • 178
  • 179
  • 180
  • 181
  • 182
  • 183
  • 184
  • 185
  • 186
  • 187
  • 188
  • 189
  • 190
  • 191
  • 192
  • 193
  • 194
  • 195
  • 196
  • 197
  • 198
  • 199
9-2
Dell PowerEdge 2300 Systems Installation and Troubleshooting Guide
%HIRUH±<RX±%HJLQ
This chapter describes how to install the following options:
²
Drives that use the computer’s on-board diskette drive controller
²
Drives that use the computer’s on-board Ultra/Narrow SCSI controller
²
Tape drives that use a controller card
NOTE: If you are installing a SCSI hard-disk drive, see Chapter 10, “Installing Hard-Disk
Drives.”
To remove or install drives in the external bays, you must remove the computer cov-
ers and front bezel according to the instructions in “Removing the Computer Covers”
in Chapter 7.
:$51,1*±²%HIRUH²\RX²SHUIRUP²WKH²SURFHGXUHV²LQ²WKLV²FKDSWHU´²\RX²PXVW²WXUQ²
RII²WKH²FRPSXWHU²DQG²GLVFRQQHFW²LW²IURP²LWV²$&²SRZHU²VRXUFH³²)RU²PRUH²LQIRU¹
PDWLRQ´²UHIHU²WR²º6DIHW\²)LUVW‡)RU²<RX²DQG²<RXU²&RPSXWHUΜ²LQ²&KDSWHU²¿³²
To protect the inside of the computer from foreign particles, a plastic front-panel
insert covers each empty external drive bay. Before you install a drive in an empty bay,
you must first remove the front-panel insert.
Whenever you remove a drive, be sure to replace the front-panel insert over the
empty bay.
5HPRYLQJ±DQG±5HSODFLQJ±)URQW¶3DQHO±
,QVHUWV
To remove the front-panel insert
for a drive bay you intend to use, first remove the
front bezel as instructed in “Removing the Computer Covers” in Chapter 7. Then, fac-
ing the inside of the front bezel, press against the center of the insert with your
thumbs until the insert bows sufficiently to loosen the tabs on the sides of the insert.
Pull the insert out of the bezel.
To replace a front-panel insert
, position the insert over the bay opening from the inside
of the front bezel and carefully press the insert into place. A tab on each side of the
insert snaps into a corresponding latch on the inside of the front bezel.