Lenovo System x3250 M4 - Removing a Simple-Swap Hard Disk Drive

2.Securethecableonthesystemboardwithcabletieafterrouting.
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ServeRAID adapter
SAS/SATA signal
cable
Hard disk
drive backplane
Step6.AligntheServeRAIDadaptersothatthekeysaligncorrectlywiththeconnectoronthePCI
riser-cardassembly.
Step7.InserttheServeRAIDadapterintotheconnectoronthePCIriser-cardassemblyuntilitisfirmly
seated.
Attention:Incompleteinsertionmightcausedamagetotheserverortheadapter.
Step8.InstallthePCIriser-cardassembly(see“ReplacingthePCIriser-cardassembly”onpage137).
Step9.Reinstallthecover(see“Replacingthecover”onpage132).
Step10.ImportyourRAIDconfigurationtothereplacementServeRAIDadapteras
aforeignconfiguration.SeetheServeRAID-MSoftwareUserGuideat
https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/documents/migr-5086126forinstructions.
Ifyouhavereplacedaservercomponentorinstalledanoptionaldeviceintheserver,youneedtoreconnect
thepowercordsandallexternalcables,andturnontheserverandperipheraldevices.
Note:Whenyourestarttheserver,youarepromptedtoimporttheexistingRAIDconfigurationtothe
newServeRAIDadapter.
Removingasimple-swapharddiskdrive
Usethisinformationtoremoveasimple-swapharddiskdrive.
Important:Beforeyouremoveasimple-swapharddiskdrivefromtheserver,takethefollowingprecautions
tosavedata,firmware,andconfigurationdata:
•Beforeyoumakechangestodiskdrives,diskdrivecontrollers(includingcontrollersthatareintegrated
onthesystemboard),diskdrivebackplates,ordiskdrivecables,backupallimportantdatathatis
storedonharddisks.
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