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continues normal operations. You can replace the failed drive and rebuild its
contents on an equivalent replacement drive automatically, without shutting
down the system.
Figure 9: RAID Cage
SCSI backplane components
The SCSI backplane connects the SCA-2 LVD SCSI drives to the SCSI
RAID controller or the SCSI controllers on the system board. The
backplane provides automatic SCSI address setting and allows
hot-swapping of SCSI drives. Figure 10 shows the back of the backplane
where the drives connect.
Figure 10: The Back of the SCSI Backplane
If the RAID cage is included as part of the server configuration, see the
Quick Hot-swap Installation Guide for information on how to configure the
quick hot-swap backplane.
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