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Question posted by cyash on July 27th, 2014
Poweredge T420 How To Reconize Hard Drives
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Glossary - Page 1
...CIM - cm - AC - Your system also contains an address bus and a data bus for the peripheral devices connected to start your system's hard drive(s) on the dictionary. A - Advanced Configuration and Power Interface. American National Standards Institute. asset tag - Baseboard management controller. Certificate authority. The temperature of a system. A module that ...
Glossary - Page 3
... Dell Remote Access Controller. IPv6 - FSB - Gravities. Gigabyte(s); 1024 megabytes or 1,073,741,824 bytes. IDE - InfiniBand offers point-to insert or install a device, typically a hard drive or an internal cooling fan, into the host system while the system is usually rounded to organize and keep track of processors with networked storage...
Glossary - Page 5
...memory module - memory key - Managed object format is one of the concepts used to hard-drive capacity, the term is provided by software. Millisecond(s). Network interface controller. managed system ...managed system is any system that is monitored and managed using Dell OpenManage™ Server Administrator. Megabyte(s); 1,048,576 bytes. Network Attached Storage. Mb - A ...
Glossary - Page 6
... execution of booting a system via a LAN (without a hard drive or bootable diskette). PDU - PowerEdge RAID controller. A single point on self-test. Power-on...drive or keyboard, connected to servers and storage systems in rows and columns to create an image. Preboot eXecution Environment. A way of arithmetic and logic functions. RAC - ns - NVRAM - In RAID arrays, a striped hard drive...
Glossary - Page 7
... providing data redundancy. SAN - Serial-attached SCSI. Small computer system interface. Allows hard drives to report errors and failures to be locally attached. Any information stored in ROM... /O port with a 9-pin connector that enables remote networkattached storage devices to appear to a server to the system BIOS and then display an error message on the screen.
7 service tag ...
User Manual - Page 6
... supported operating systems.
Dell Software License Agreement
Before using your system. For customers outside the United States, visit support.dell.com and select your system's hard drive. Other Information You May Need
WARNING: See the safety and regulatory information that you purchased a preinstalled operating system, see the installation and configuration documentation for...
Owner's Manual - Page 3
... Mode 9 Front-Panel Features And Indicators-Rack Mode 14 LCD Panel Features...15
Home Screen...16 Setup Menu...16 View Menu...17 Diagnostic Indicators...17 Hard-Drive Indicator Patterns...19 Back-Panel Features And Indicators...20 NIC Indicator Codes...22 Power Indicator Codes For Redundant Power Supply 22 Power Indicator Codes For...
Owner's Manual - Page 4
...-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-Drive Adapter From A Hard-Drive...
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 7
... Cooling Fans...129 Troubleshooting System Memory...129 Troubleshooting An Internal USB Key...130 Troubleshooting An SD Card...130 Troubleshooting An Optical Or Tape Drive...131 Troubleshooting A Hard Drive...131 Troubleshooting Expansion Cards...132 Troubleshooting Processor...133
6 Using System Diagnostics...135
Dell Online Diagnostics...135 Dell Embedded System Diagnostics...135
When To...
Owner's Manual - Page 9
Front-Panel Features and Indicators-2.5 Inch Hot-Swappable Hard-Drive Chassis 9 1
About Your System
Front-Panel Features And Indicators-Tower Mode
Figure 1.
Owner's Manual - Page 10
... and Indicators-3.5 Inch Hot-Swappable Hard-Drive Chassis
Item
Indicator, Button, or
Icon
Description
Connector
1
Tape drive (optional)
One optional 5.25 inch tape drive. NOTE: If your system is installed with a double-width GPU card, the system supports only one 5.25 inch removable media storage device.
2
Optical drive 2 (optional)
3
Optical drive 1 (optional)
Up to two optional...
Owner's Manual - Page 11
...LCD panel
Used to toggle the system ID on and off .
10
USB connectors (2)
11
Hard drives
Allow you to do so by qualified support personnel or by descriptive text.
NOTE: If the ...LCD lights amber regardless of the following configurations:
• Up to eight 3.5 inch hot-swappable hard drives • Up to the system.
Displays system ID, status information, and system error messages....
Owner's Manual - Page 12
..., Button, or
Icon
Connector
1
Tape drive (optional)
2
Optical drive (optional)
Description
One optional 5.25 inch tape drive. Item
Indicator, Button, or
Icon
Description
Connector
• Up to sixteen 2.5 inch hot-swappable hard drives
Figure 3. Front-Panel Features and Indicators-3.5 Inch Cabled Hard-Drive Chassis
NOTE: Cabled hard-drive systems are not rackable. One optional...
Owner's Manual - Page 14
... on . The identification buttons on indicator lights when the system power is pressed again. Front-Panel Features and Indicators
NOTE: Only systems with hot-swappable hard drives are rackable. Item
Indicator, Button, or
Icon
Description
Connector
1
Power-on indicator, power
button
The power-on the front and back panels can be used...
Owner's Manual - Page 15
...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 ...provides system information and status and error messages to sixteen 2.5 inch hot-swappable hard drives. The LCD lights blue during normal operating conditions and lights amber to record system...
Owner's Manual - Page 17
...Service tag for the system.
Power
Displays the power output of the Setup menu. or hard drive)
17
Diagnostic Indicators
NOTE: Systems with an SEL entry.
See View Menu to be ..., you must confirm the option before proceeding to match an LCD message with cabled hard drives support diagnostic indicators.
This is switched off. NOTE: No diagnostic indicators are lit when the...
Owner's Manual - Page 18
... Help.
18 Health Indicator
Condition
Corrective Action
Invalid memory configurations can cause the system to indicate hard-drive activity.
Corrective Action
See the system event log or system messages for example, voltage out of the failed memory.
Hard-drive Indicator
Condition The indicator lights green to halt at startup without any video output. If...
Owner's Manual - Page 67
...PowerEdge RAID
Controller (PERC) card 3. backplane power connector 8. Slide down the hard-drive backplane until the release pin locks into the slot. 3. Read and follow the safety instructions that is not authorized by Dell is not covered by your product documentation, or as guides to align the hard-drive... on backplane
Installing The Hard-Drive Backplane
CAUTION: Many repairs may only...
Owner's Manual - Page 135
...run from the Dell Lifecycle Controller. Dell Embedded System Diagnostics
NOTE: Also known as hard drives, physical memory, and network interface cards (NICs). Using this program with your system,...modules, allows you to provide extra information about using diagnostics, see the Dell Online PowerEdge Diagnostics User's Guide under Software → Serviceability Tools, at support.dell.com/...
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