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© Copyright IBM Corp. 2000
Contents
Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
About this book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
How this book is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Notices used in this book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Related publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x
Chapter 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Features at a glance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Netfinity EXP300 bays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Hot-swap drive bays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Bridge card bay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
ESM and power supply bays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Switch card bay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Front controls, indicators, and devices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Rear controls, indicators, and connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Power-supply controls, indicators, and connectors . 6
ESM board user controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
System-management software support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Chapter 2. Installing the expansion unit . . 9
Operating specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Inventory checklist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Getting started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Preparing the expansion unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
External option switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Internal option switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Unit ID switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Installing the expansion unit in a rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Installing the expansion unit in a NetBAY enclosure. . 17
Completing the installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Installing identification labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Cabling the expansion unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
SCSI cabling information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
SCSI cable restriction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Power cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Turning the expansion unit on and off. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Turning on the expansion unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Turning off the expansion unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Turning off the expansion unit in an emergency. . . 23
Turning on the expansion unit after an emergency 23
Chapter 3. Installing and replacing devices
25
Installing hot-swap drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Replacing hot-swap drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Working with cards and boards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Replacing a bridge card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Replacing the switch card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Replacing an ESM board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Working with hot-swap power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Chapter 4. Solving problems . . . . . . . . . . 35
Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Getting help, service, and information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Appendix A. Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Appendix B. Product warranties and
notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Warranty Statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
IBM Statement of Limited Warranty for United States,
Puerto Rico, and Canada (Part 1 - General Terms) . 41
IBM Statement of Warranty Worldwide except
Canada, Puerto Rico, Turkey, United States (Part 1 –
General Terms) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Part 2 - Worldwide Country-Unique Terms . . . . . . . 46
Notices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Edition Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Year 2000 readiness and instructions. . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Trademarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Important notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Electronic emission notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Industry Canada Class A emission compliance
statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Australia and New Zealand Class A statement. . . . 53
United Kingdom telecommunications safety
requirement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
European Union EMC Directive conformance
statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Taiwan electrical emission statement . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Japanese Voluntary Control Council for Interference
(VCCI) statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Power cords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
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