Gateway 7450R User Manual

Replacing and Adding Internal Devices          

The hot-plug drives are located along the bottom edge of the front panel as 
you face the system. The hot-plug bay supports as many as three 1-inch high, 
3.5-inch SCSI hard drives.

The hot-plug drives are assigned SCSI ID numbers by the hot-plug backplane 
with the drive on the left end of the hot-plug bay assigned SCSI ID 0. The 
backplane assigns SCSI IDs to the other drives in order up to SCSI ID 2 at the 
right end of the hot-plug bay. See “Hot-plug backplane” on page 8 for the 
locations of the drives by SCSI ID number.

Install the first drive in the left bay, then install drives in increasing order by 
SCSI ID number thereafter.

Before you remove the failed drive, use the appropriate software and 
utilities installed on the system to stop all activity on the SCSI bus. 
Instructions for using the software are provided by the software 
manufacturer.

Use the utilities or look at the drive indicator LEDs on the front panel 
to determine which drive needs to be replaced.

Gateway tests and verifies the operation and compatibility 
of the drives we sell. Additional or replacement drives must 
conform to Gateway standards, especially in a RAID or 
mission-critical environment.

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