Installation and Service Manual

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Removing the drive backplane
Prerequisites
CAUTION: Note the number of each drive and temporarily label them before you remove the drive so that you
can replace them in the same location.
1. Follow the safety guidelines listed in Safety instructions.
2. Follow the procedure listed in Before working inside your system.
3. Remove the front bezel.
4. Remove all the drives
CAUTION: To prevent damage to the drives and backplane, remove the drives from the system before
removing the backplane.
5. Remove the air shroud.
6. Disconnect the cables from the drive backplane.
Steps
1. Press the blue release tabs to disengage the drive backplane from the hooks on the system.
2. Lift and pull out the backplane out of the system.
Figure 38. Removing the drive backplane
Next steps
Replace a drive backplane.
Installing the drive backplane
Prerequisites
1. Follow the safety guidelines listed in Safety instructions.
2. Follow the procedure listed in Before working inside your system.
Installing and removing system components
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