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Chapter 1: Maintaining and Upgrading the Hardware

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Upgrading the Hardware—Sun Cobalt Control Station

 

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Top cover on the Sun Cobalt Control Station   

 

Adding a PCI card 

 

The Sun Cobalt Control Station unit is a single rack-unit (1RU) enclosure. Before 
you purchase a component to add to the Sun Cobalt Control Station, ensure that 
the component fits into the allocated space. 

 

Specifications for a PCI card 

 

The PCI expansion slot has been designed to accommodate the PCI standard 
short card form factor, with some additional space for longer cards. The PCI card 
must be less than 10.5 inches (267 mm) long. 

The current loads for a PCI card must not exceed the following limits: 

5V @ 1A 

+12V @ 0.5A 

-12V @ 0.1A 

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PCI retainer

PCI slot cover

PCI screw

Summary of Contents for Sun Cobalt Control Station

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Page 5: ... air intake and air exhaust ports each month If debris has accumulated on either the front panel or the rear fans vacuum the debris out with a powerful vacuum cleaner Upgrading There are two ways to upgrade your Sun Cobalt Control Station add a PCI expansion card see Adding a PCI card on page 4 replace a failed hard disk drive see Replacing a hard disk drive on page 7 ...

Page 6: ...llips screwdriver unscrew the top cover of the control station Ten screws hold the top cover in place The screws are labeled 1 through 10 in Figure 2 Figure 1 shows the rear view of the Sun Cobalt Control Station Figure 2 shows how to remove the top cover of the Sun Cobalt Control Station Warning You must power down the Sun Cobalt Control Station before opening the unit Note If the Sun Cobalt Cont...

Page 7: ...k activity and information The OK to Power Off light flashes when it is safe to turn the power off 6 The Serial console port allows you to connect serial devices 7 The Serial connector allows you to connect a UPS to the serial port for Smart UPS support 8 The PCI expansion slot provides space for adding a PCI card The Network connectors enable ethernet network connections and accept the 10 100 Bas...

Page 8: ...t to add to the Sun Cobalt Control Station ensure that the component fits into the allocated space Specifications for a PCI card The PCI expansion slot has been designed to accommodate the PCI standard short card form factor with some additional space for longer cards The PCI card must be less than 10 5 inches 267 mm long The current loads for a PCI card must not exceed the following limits 5V 1A ...

Page 9: ...the PCI connector 3 Plug the PCI card into the PCI connector See Figure 3 4 Replace the PCI retainer and screw to hold the PCI card in place 5 Save the PCI slot cover in case you want to remove the PCI card later 6 Replace the top cover of the control station 7 Secure the top cover properly and replace the ten screws that hold the top cover in place See Figure 2 Caution Wear an electrostatic disch...

Page 10: ... Sun Cobalt Control Station Figure 3 Layout of the printed circuit board Console serial port Serial connector Network 2 Network 1 Heat sink Screw hole Status Indicators LEDs External SCSI connector Screw hole Screw hole Power connector IDE hard drive connectors View from top Memory slot 1 Memory slot 2 Screw hole Screw hole Screw hole PCI connector 3 V DC Lithium battery CR2032 USB port ...

Page 11: ...u select meet the specifications listed in Table 1 A hard disk drive that does not meet these specifications can cause reliability problems in your server Table 1 Specifications for the hard disk drive Specification Value Peak current draw Must not exceed 1 8 amperes max at 12 volts 0 7 amperes max at 5 volts Rotational speed 5400 rpm Interface Ultra ATA 33 EIDE or faster Operating temperature Mus...

Page 12: ... 1 a 2 Phillips screwdriver Overview Caution Ensure that you are installing a hard disk drive of the same capacity as the one you are replacing Caution Wear an electrostatic discharge ESD grounding wrist strap Warning Do not swap hard disk drives from one Sun Cobalt Control Station to another Also do not install a drive that was previously partitioned for RAID in a Sun Cobalt Control Station as an...

Page 13: ...ve to the existing hard disk drive so that the server will be able to provide disk mirroring RAID 1 Removing a hard disk drive First remove the top cover of the control station see Opening the Sun Cobalt Control Station on page 2 To remove a hard disk drive 1 Unplug the IDE cable from the hard disk drive see Figure 4 2 Unplug the power cable from the hard disk drive see Figure 5 3 Remove the screw...

Page 14: ...re Sun Cobalt Control Station Figure 4 shows the layout of the IDE cables in the Sun Cobalt Control Station Figure 4 Layout of the IDE cables Printed circuit board simplified Power supply RIGHT primary hard drive LEFT secondary hard drive Power connector IDE connectors 1 2 ...

Page 15: ...e 5 shows the layout of the power cables in the Sun Cobalt Control Station Figure 5 Layout of the power cables 1 2 3 Printed circuit board simplified Power supply Power cables Power connector Secondary IDE connector Primary IDE connector LEFT secondary hard drive RIGHT primary hard drive ...

Page 16: ...nnectors on the hard disk drive must face in to the center of the chassis with the foam pad located next to the power supply 4 Re attach the bracket to the chassis with the correct screw Warning Do not swap hard disk drives from one Sun Cobalt Control Station to another Also do not install a drive that was previously partitioned for RAID in a Sun Cobalt Control Station as an additional non RAIDed ...

Page 17: ...ation To replace the top cover and reboot the Sun Cobalt Control Station 1 Secure the top cover properly and replace the ten screws that hold the top cover in place See Figure 2 on page 4 2 Reconnect the power cord to the rear of the control station 3 Power up the control station The control station boots up in the normal manner Note When rebooting the system automatically detects the new hard dis...

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