Chapter 5: System Maintenance
Always be slow, gentle, and careful when handling a hard drive.
Handle a hard drive only by the edges of its metal cover, and avoid
touching its circuits part and interface connectors.
Step 1.
Identify the location of the drive tray
that contains a hard
drive indicated as faulty. You may use firmware utility or
RAIDWatch software to locate a faulty drive. The drive tray
LED should also light red.
Step 2.
Make sure the rotary bezel lock is turned to the unlocked
position,
(See
Figure 5-22
) i.e., the groove on its face is in a
horizontal orientation. Use a flathead screwdriver to turn the
rotary lock to the unlocked orientation.
Figure 5-22: Drive Tray Bezel Lock Rotation
Step 3.
Open the front flap
by pushing the release button at the front
of the drive tray. (See
Figure 5-23
) The front flap will
automatically swings up into position.
Figure 5-23: Opening the Front Flap
Step 4.
Remove the drive tray
by pulling it one inch away from the
drive bay. Wait for at least 30 seconds for the disk drive to
spin down (if the disk drive is removed for a different purpose,
e.g., cloning the members of a logical drive or Copy &
Replacing a Failed
Hard Drive
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