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6. Remove the screws securing the SAS hard drive cage.
7. Slowly pull the SAS hard drive cage out of the server until there is enough room to reach behind the
SAS hard drive cage.
8. Disconnect all cables from the back of the SAS hard drive cage ("Hot-plug SAS and SATA hard
drive cabling" on page 96).
9. Remove the mounting screws, and pull the SAS backplane from the rear of the cage.
To replace the component, reverse the removal procedure.
Removing the power backplane
1. Power down the server (on page 29).
2. Remove all power supplies ("Removing a redundant hot-plug power supply" on page 56) and power
supply blanks ("Removing a power supply blank" on page 55).