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6-11 Drive Bay Installation/Removal
Accessing the Drive Bays
SATA Drives: You do not need to access the inside of the chassis or remove power
to replace or swap SATA drives. Proceed to the next step for instructions. You must
use standard 1" high, SATA drives in the system.
Note: Refer to the following FTP site for RAID setup guidelines: < ftp://ftp.supermicro.
com/driver/SAS/LSI/LSI_SAS_EmbMRAID_SWUG.pdf > and Supermicro's web site
for additional inmformation < http://www.supermicro.com/support/manuals/ >.
The SC217 chassis contains four individual motherboards in separate node drawers.
Each motherboard node controls a set of six hard drives. Note that if a motherboard
node drawer is pulled out of the chassis, the hard drives associated with that node
will power down as well.
Serverboard Drawer Locations in the Chassis
Serverboard A controls
HDDs A1 through A12
Serverboard B controls
HDDs B1 through B12
Figure 6-16. Hard Drives and the Corresponding Motherboards
MB: B
MB: A
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A
1 B