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Installing options
Major components of the xSeries 220 server . . . . . 54
System board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
System board options connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
System board internal cable connectors. . . . . . . . . 55
System board external port connectors . . . . . . . . . 57
System board jumpers and switches . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Before you begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
System reliability considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Rotating the stabilizing feet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Removing the side cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Removing the bezel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Removing the support bracket assembly . . . . . . . 61
Working with adapters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Adapter considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Installing an adapter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Installing internal drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Internal drive bays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Preinstallation steps (all bays). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Installing a drive in bay 1, 2, 3, or 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Installing a non-hot-swap hard disk drive in bay 5,
6, or 7. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Installing a hot-swap hard disk drive in bay 5, 6, or
7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Installing memory modules. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Installing and removing a microprocessor . . . . . . 77
Installing a microprocessor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Removing a microprocessor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Installing the bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Installing the cover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Connecting external options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Installation procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
I/O connector locations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Input/Output ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Parallel port. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Viewing or changing the port assignments . . . . . 86
Parallel port connector. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Serial ports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Viewing or changing the serial-port assignments 88
Serial-port connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Universal Serial Bus ports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
USB cables and hubs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
USB-port connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Keyboard port. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Auxiliary-device (pointing device) port . . . . . . . . 90
Video port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
SCSI port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
SCSI cabling requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Setting SCSI IDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
SCSI connector pin-number assignments. . . . . . . 92
Ethernet port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Configuring the Ethernet controller . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Failover for redundant Ethernet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
High-performance Ethernet modes. . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Ethernet port connector. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
This chapter provides instructions to help you add options to the server. Some
option-removal instructions are provided, in case you need to remove one option to
install another. For a list of supported options for the server, see the ServerProven list
at:
http://www.ibm.com/pc/compat/