Owners Manual

PS6610 Hardware Owner's Manual 2 Drive Maintenance

• Protect drives from electrostatic discharge. Wear an electrostatic wrist strap when handling a

drive. See Hardware Protection on page 6.

• Store drives properly. Store replacement drives in the packaging in which they were shipped. Do

not stack drives or place anything on top of a drive.

• Handle drives carefully. Hold a drive only by the plastic part of the carrier or the handle. Do not

drop, jolt, or force a drive into a slot.

• Warm replacement drives to room temperature before installation. (Consider letting a new

replacement drive sit overnight before installing it in an array.)

• Do not remove a drive from its carrier. This action will void your warranty and support contract.

• Keep the shipping material. Return a failed drive to your array support provider in the packaging

in which the replacement drive was shipped. Shipping drives in unauthorized packaging might void

your warranty.

Drive Maintenance Requirements

Disk drives must be installed properly and in a specific configuration to allow for the necessary

airflow and cooling throughout the chassis. Failure to do so will trigger a warning condition.

• Failed drives should be replaced as soon as possible. However, if a drive fails and a replacement

is not readily available, leave the failed drive in the slot until it can be replaced.

• When installing drives in the array, apply firm downward pressure with both hands and slide the

drive toward the rear of the drawer until it snaps into place and the locking latch is fully engaged.

See Install Disk Drives on page 12.

• When correctly installed in the drawer, all top-facing drive surfaces should form a flat and level

surface. If a drive is protruding upward in any way, reinstall the drive.

• After installation, verify that the drive power LED is green or flashing green.

Disk-Drive Slot Numbers

Disk-drive slots in the top drawer are numbered as shown in Table 5. The disk-drive slots in the bot-

tom drawer are numbered as shown in Table 6.

Table 5: Top-Drawer Drive Numbers

28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41

14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

Drawer Front

Table 6: Bottom-Drawer Drive Numbers

70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83

56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69

42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55

Drawer Front