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Netfinity 5500 - Internal Drive Bays

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Internal Drive Bays:
Internal drives are installed in bays. Your server comes with one 3.5-inch, 1.44 MB diskette drive and one CD-ROM drive.

Your server contains hardware that lets you replace a failed hard disk drive without turning off the server. Therefore, you have the advantage of continuing to operate your system while a hard disk drive is removed or installed. These drives are known as hot-swappable drives. They are also referred to as hot-swap drives.

Each hot-swap drive bay has two indicator lights on the front of the server (see "Information LED Panel"). If the amber Hard Disk Status light for a drive is lit continuously, that individual drive is faulty and needs to be replaced. When the Hard Disk Status light indicates a drive fault, you can replace a hot-swap drive without turning off the server.

Each hot-swap drive that you plan to install must have a hot-swap-drive tray attached. The drive must have a single connector attachment (SCA) connector.

Hot-swap-drive trays come with the hot-swap drives.

- Your server comes with a preinstalled 3.5-inch, 1.44 MB diskette drive and a preinstalled IDE CD-ROM drive.

- Bays A and B come without a device installed. These bays are for 5.25-inch, half-high, removable-media drives, such as tape backup drives. Bays A and B can be combined into a single full-high bay.

- The Netfinity 5500 supports only one diskette drive.

- Your server does not support hard disk drives in bays A and B because of cooling considerations.

Note The server's EMI integrity and cooling are both protected by having the left front bays (removable-media bays) covered or occupied. When you install a drive, save the filler panel from the bay, in case you later remove the drive and do not replace it with another.

- If you are installing a device with a 50-pin connector in one of the removable-media bays (bays A B), you need a 68-pin to 50-pin converter.

- Your server supports six slim (1-inch) or three half-high (1.6-inch), 3.5-inch hot-swap hard disk drives in the hot-swap bays.

- The hot-swap bays connect to a SCSI backplane. This backplane is the printed circuit board behind the bay. The backplane supports up to six hard disk drives.

- The diskette drive uses 1 MB and 2 MB diskettes. For optimum use, format 1 MB diskettes to 720 KB and format 2 MB diskettes to 1.44 MB.

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	Date Created	09-12-98
	Last Updated	09-12-98
	Revision Date	09-12-99
	Brand	IBM PC Server
	Product Family	Netfinity 5500
	Machine Type	8660
	Model	ALL
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