IBM 8832L1X, Maintenance And Troubleshooting Manual

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• Take additional care when handling devices during cold weather. Heating reduces indoor
humidity and increases static electricity.
Installing a SCSI storage expansion unit
To use SCSI hard disk drives with your blade server, you must install the Intel
®
Blade Server SCSI
Expansion Module SBESCSI on the blade server. You will then be able to install two 2.5-inch, hot-
swap, SCSI, slim-high hard disk drives in the expansion unit. The SCSI storage expansion unit can
contain up to two SCSI controllers that support embedded mirroring (RAID level-1) and embedded
mirroring with striping (RAID-1E).
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NOTE
After you install the SCSI storage expansion unit on your blade server, the blade server and
expansion unit together occupy two blade bays in the SBCE unit.
For a list of SCSI hard disk drives supported by your blade server, see the Tested Hardware and
Operating System List (THOL) on IBL.
Complete the following steps to install the SCSI storage expansion unit:
1. Review the information in “Safety and regulatory information” on page vii and “Installation
guidelines” on page 17.
2. Shut down the operating system, turn off the blade server, and remove the blade server from the
SBCE unit.
3. Carefully lay the blade server on a flat, non-conductive surface.
4. Remove the blade server cover:
a. Open the blade server cover and lift it from the blade server.
b. Store the cover in a safe place.
Blade-cover
release
Blade-cover
release