RX2540 M4 Upgrade and Maintenance Manual
7.3.6.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
7.3.6.2 Removing a 3.5-inch HDD module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
7.3.6.3 Installing a 3.5-inch dummy module . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
7.3.6.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
7.3.7 Replacing a 3.5-inch HDD module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
7.3.7.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
7.3.7.2 Removing the defective 3.5-inch HDD module . . . . . . . 154
7.3.7.3 Installing the new 3.5-inch HDD module . . . . . . . . . . . 154
7.3.7.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
7.3.8 Replacing the 3.5-inch HDD backplanes . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
7.3.8.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
7.3.8.2 Disconnecting the first 3.5-inch HDD backplane . . . . . . . 155
7.3.8.3 Removing the 3.5-inch HDD backplane . . . . . . . . . . . 156
7.3.8.4 Installing the 3.5-inch HDD backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
7.3.8.5 Connecting the 3.5-inch HDD backplane . . . . . . . . . . 158
7.3.8.6 Connecting the SAS cable (one 3.5-inch HDD backplane) . 159
7.3.8.7 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
7.3.9 Upgrading configuration from up to four to up to
eight 3.5-inch HDDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
7.3.9.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
7.3.9.2 Installing the second 3.5-inch HDD backplane . . . . . . . . 161
7.3.9.3 Connecting the SAS cables (two 3.5-inch HDD backplanes) 162
7.3.9.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
7.3.10 Replacing the 12x 3.5-inch HDD backplane . . . . . . . . . . . 164
7.3.10.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
7.3.10.2 Removing the SAS expander board . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
7.3.10.3 Removing the defective 12x 3.5-inch HDD backplane . . . . 166
7.3.10.4 Installing the new 12x 3.5-inch HDD backplane . . . . . . . 167
7.3.10.5 Installing the SAS expander board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
7.3.10.6 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
7.3.11 Replacing the SAS expander board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
7.3.11.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
7.3.11.2 Removing the SAS expander board holder . . . . . . . . . 171
7.3.11.3 Removing the defective SAS expander board . . . . . . . . 171
7.3.11.4 Installing the new SAS expander board . . . . . . . . . . . 173
7.3.11.5 Installing the SAS expander board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
7.3.11.6 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
7.3.12 Replacing the connector card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
7.3.12.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
7.3.12.2 Removing the SAS expander board . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
7.3.12.3 Removing the defective connector card . . . . . . . . . . . 176