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Chapter 2. Installing the I/O expansion card
This chapter provides detailed instructions for installing the I/O expansion
card in your blade server.
Note: The blade server shown in the illustrations in this section might be
different from your blade server. For additional information, see the
documentation that comes with your blade server.
Installation guidelines
Before you begin to install the I/O expansion card in your blade server, read
the safety information beginning on page v and the guidelines in “Handling
static-sensitive devices” on page 10. This information will help you work safely
with your blade server and options.
Make sure that you are using the latest versions of device drivers, firmware,
and BIOS or firmware code for your blade server, management module, and
I/O modules that are used by the I/O expansion card. Go to the IBM support
Web site, http://www.ibm.com/pc/support/ for the latest information about
upgrading the device drivers, firmware, and BIOS or firmware code for
BladeCenter components. The latest instructions are in the documentation that
comes with the updates.
If your blade server has an integrated drive electronics (IDE) hard disk drive
installed in the IDE connector location where you are installing the I/O
expansion card, you will need to remove it to install the I/O expansion card.
The I/O expansion card occupies the same space as this hard disk drive and
replaces it. You cannot install a hard disk drive in the IDE connector while an
I/O expansion card is installed in that connector location. This means that you
must choose to install either an IDE hard disk drive or an I/O expansion card
in some types of blade servers.
Important:
v If an IDE hard disk drive must be removed to install the I/O expansion
card, and this disk drive contains any information that you want to keep,
back it up to another storage device.
v If an IDE hard disk drive must be removed to install the I/O expansion
card, and this disk drive is part of a redundant array of independent disks
(RAID) array, unconfigure this RAID array before removing the hard disk
drive. See your operating-system documentation for instructions.
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