Removal and Replacement Procedures 21
Hard Drive
CAUTION: Always power down the server if the boot partition
resides on the drive you are replacing or if you are replacing the only
drive in the server.
CAUTION: To prevent improper cooling and thermal damage,
do not operate the server unless all bays are populated with either a
component or a blank.
1. Determine the status of the hard drive from the hot-plug hard drive LEDs
("Hot-Plug SCSI Hard Drive LED Combinations" on page 74
, "Hot-Plug
SCSI Hard Drive LEDs" on page 73
).
2. Back up all server data on the hard drive.
3. Remove one of the following:
− Remove the SCSI hard drive.