Dell PowerEdge T420 Support Question
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Question posted by peppedee on April 8th, 2014
Can You Install A Hard Drive On Poweredge T420 When Is On
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Glossary - Page 3
...for connection of electronic chip that uses the Internet SCSI protocol. However, when referring to hard-drive capacity, the term is the data path and physical interface between the system's bus ...can be defined as x horizontal by y vertical pixels by MS-DOS to insert or install a device, typically a hard drive or an internal cooling fan, into the host system while the system is an output...
Glossary - Page 5
...address - Megabit(s); 1,048,576 bits. However, when referring to hard-drive capacity, the term is one or more managed systems from a ... MHz - Managed object format is monitored and managed using Dell OpenManage™ Server Administrator. Network Attached Storage. A managed system is any system that is an...installed or integrated in a system to allow connection to a network.
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Glossary - Page 6
..., such as 640 x 480, is an extension of booting a system via a LAN (without a hard drive or bootable diskette). Before the operating system loads when you turn on another processor. processor - A provider is expressed as a diskette drive or keyboard, connected to servers and storage systems in rows and columns to signal the processor about hardware...
Glossary - Page 7
...you call Dell for program instructions and data. Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology. Allows hard drives to report errors and failures to be locally attached. A method of independent disks. ... in ROM include the program that enables remote networkattached storage devices to appear to a server to the system BIOS and then display an error message on the screen.
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User Manual - Page 6
... system components that came with the operating system. To install an operating system for the latest information on your system. For customers in other documents.
6 NOTE: See dell.com/ossupport for the first time, see the documentation associated with your system's hard drive. Complete The Operating System Setup
If you purchased with your...
Owner's Manual - Page 4
... Hard Drive...52 Installing A Hot-Swap Hard Drive...53 Removing A 2.5 Inch Hard-Drive Blank...54 Installing A 2.5 Inch Hard-Drive Blank...54 Removing A 3.5 Inch Hard-Drive Blank...54 Installing A 3.5 Inch Hard-Drive Blank...55 Removing A 2.5 Inch Hard Drive From A 3.5 Inch Hard-Drive Adapter 55 Installing A 2.5 Inch Hard Drive Into A 3.5 Inch Hard-Drive Adapter 56 Removing A Hard Drive Or A Hard...
Owner's Manual - Page 5
Installing A Hard Drive Or A Hard-Drive Adapter Into A Hard-Drive Carrier 57 Hard Drives-Cabled...57
Removing The Internal Hard-Drive Bay...58 Installing The Internal Hard-Drive Bay...59 Removing A Cabled Hard Drive...59 Installing A Cabled Hard Drive...60 Hard-Drive Backplane...61 Removing The Hard-Drive Backplane ...61 Installing The Hard-Drive Backplane...67 Four-Slot Hard-Drive Blank...68 ...
Owner's Manual - Page 10
... storage device.
2
Optical drive 2 (optional)
3
Optical drive 1 (optional)
Up to two optional SATA DVD-ROM drive or DVD+/-RW drive. Figure 2. NOTE: If your system is installed with a double-width GPU card, the system supports only one 5.25 inch removable media storage device.
10
Front-Panel Features and Indicators-3.5 Inch Hot-Swappable Hard-Drive Chassis
Item
Indicator...
Owner's Manual - Page 11
...this button only if directed to eight 2.5 inch hot-swappable hard drives
installed in F2 iDRAC setup), press and hold the system ID button...to the system.
To reset integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) (if not disabled in the 3.5 inch hard-drive carriers
11 NOTE: On Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI)-compliant operating systems, turning off the system using the...
Owner's Manual - Page 15
... and an error is detected, the LCD lights amber regardless of the following configurations:
• Up to eight 3.5 inch hot-swappable hard drives. • Up to eight 2.5 inch hot-swappable hard drives
installed in F2 iDRAC setup) press and hold for information about specific error codes.
• The LCD backlight lights blue during normal system...
Owner's Manual - Page 19
... this time.
Hard-Drive Indicators
1. hard-drive status indicator (green and amber)
NOTE: If the hard drive is turned on the right side) does not function and remains off. Blinks green, amber, and off Blinks amber four times per second Off
Condition
Identifying drive or preparing for removal
Drive ready for the PCIe card.
Re-install the card.
PCIe...
Owner's Manual - Page 21
...within a rack.
The ports are USB 2.0-compliant.
To reset iDRAC (if not disabled in systems with cabled hard drives and systems with an x8 backplane.
2
PCIe expansion card slots (6)
3
vFlash media card slot
4
iDRAC7...system. NOTE: The port is available for routing the power cable of the buttons is installed on and off. Two integrated 10/100/1000 Mbps NIC connectors. Allows you to ...
Owner's Manual - Page 46
....
internal cooling fan 5. cabled power supply 2. heat sink for processor 2 7. NOTE: If your system is installed with a double-width GPU card, the system supports only one tape drive. • Systems with hot-swappable hard drives, the optical and tape drives can be replaced by a Dell PowerVault RD1000 removable media device. Inside the System-With Cabled...
Owner's Manual - Page 52
... tabs on a flat, stable surface and rotate the system feet outward. 5.
Be aware that high-capacity hard drives can cause a hard drive failure. When the hard-drive indicators are then installed in hot-swappable hard-drive carriers that have hard-drive blanks installed. 4. Insert a hard-drive blank in the system chassis, ensure that the host adapter is ready for the storage controller...
Owner's Manual - Page 53
... instructions that is not authorized by the online or telephone service and support team. See the documentation supplied with the product. release button 2.
CAUTION: When installing a hard drive, ensure that your product documentation, or as authorized in the same RAID volume is blank or contains data that have over-written. CAUTION: When a replacement...
Owner's Manual - Page 54
... release button
Installing A 2.5 Inch Hard-Drive Blank
1. Removing and Installing a 2.5 Inch Hard-Drive Blank 1. Insert the hard-drive blank into place. 3. Figure 21. Grasp the front of the hard-drive slot. Removing A 2.5 Inch Hard-Drive Blank
CAUTION: To maintain proper system cooling, all empty hard-drive slots must have drive blanks installed. 1. hard-drive blank 2. drive slot.
54...
Owner's Manual - Page 55
... 2.5 Inch Hard Drive Into a 3.5 Inch Hard-Drive Adapter 55 Remove the hard-drive away from the side of the 3.5 inch hard-drive adapter. 2. Insert the hard-drive blank into the hard-drive slot until the release button clicks into a 3.5 inch hard-drive adapter, which is installed into place. 3. Removing A 2.5 Inch Hard Drive From A 3.5 Inch Hard-Drive Adapter
NOTE: A 2.5 inch hard drive is...
Owner's Manual - Page 56
... to servicing that came with the screw holes on the hard-drive carrier. 2.
Removing and Installing a Hot-Swap Hard Drive Into a Hard-Drive Carrier 1. 1. screw holes (4)
56 screws (2) 2. 3.5 inch hard-drive adapter 3. 2.5 inch hard drive
Installing A 2.5 Inch Hard Drive Into A 3.5 Inch Hard-Drive Adapter
CAUTION: Many repairs may only be done by the online or telephone service and...
Owner's Manual - Page 67
SAS A connector on backplane
Installing The Hard-Drive Backplane
CAUTION: Many repairs may only be done by the online or telephone service and support team. I2C connector on backplane
6. Slide down the hard-drive backplane until the release pin locks into the slot. 3. SAS B connector on system board 5. I2C connector on PowerEdge RAID
Controller (PERC) card 3. power...
Owner's Manual - Page 135
... use the diagnostics results to provide extra information about using diagnostics, see the Dell Online PowerEdge Diagnostics User's Guide under Software → Serviceability Tools, at support.dell.com/manuals....(ePSA) diagnostics.
Dell Embedded System Diagnostics
NOTE: Also known as hard drives, physical memory, and network interface cards (NICs).
The purpose of diagnostic programs or test ...
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