Cisco Systems Engine 611 manual

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    Corporate Headquarters: © 20 05 Cisco Syst ems, Inc. All rights reserved. Cisco Systems, Inc., 170 West Tasman Drive, San Jose, CA 95134-1706 USA Installing Hard Disk Drives in the Cisco Wide Area Application Engine 611 Product Numbers: DISK-611SC-144GB=, DISK-611SC-3 00GB= This publicat ion pro vides basic in structions for installi ng SCSI hard [...]

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    2 Installing Hard Disk Drives in the Cisco Wide Ar ea Ap plication Engine 611 78-17404-01 Safety Overview Protecting Against Electrostatic Discharge Static electricit y can harm delicate componen ts insi de the de vice. T o pre vent stat ic damage, discharg e static electricity from your body before you touch an y of your system’ s electronic com[...]

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    3 Installing Hard Disk Drives in th e Cisco Wide Area Application Engine 611 78-17404-01 Introduction Introduction The W AE-611 supports two 1-inch (2 .54-cm) slim 3.5-inch (8.89-cm) lo w voltage dif ferential (L VD) hard disk dri ves. The W AE-611 requires SCSI hard disk dri ves. War ni ng Only trained and qualified personn el should be allowed to[...]

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    4 Installing Hard Disk Drives in the Cisco Wide Ar ea Ap plication Engine 611 78-17404-01 Removing the Bezel and Cover Removing the Bezel and Cover War ni ng Before working on a sy stem that has an on/off switch, turn OFF the po wer and unplug the power cord. Statement 1 War ni ng Do not work on the sy stem or connect or disc onnect cables during p[...]

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    5 Installing Hard Disk Drives in th e Cisco Wide Area Application Engine 611 78-17404-01 Removing the Beze l and Cover Figur e 2 Removing the Co v er Step 5 Slide the cov er back. Lift it up and of f the device. Caution For proper cool ing and airflo w , replace the cover before tu rning on the de vice. Operating t he device for extended periods (o[...]

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    6 Installing Hard Disk Drives in the Cisco Wide Ar ea Ap plication Engine 611 78-17404-01 Assigning SCSI IDs Figur e 3 Location of Dr ive Ba ys Behind the Bez el Assigning SCSI IDs When you install or replace one or more of the SCSI disk dri v es in a W AE-611, you must assign a SCSI ID to each disk dri ve. The SCSI IDs are assigned b y placing or [...]

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    7 Installing Hard Disk Drives in th e Cisco Wide Area Application Engine 611 78-17404-01 Removing and Repl acing a SCS I Hard Disk Dri ve Figure 4 Hard Disk Dr ive Connec tors and SCSI ID Jumper Pins Step 2 T o check whether the configuration is correct, refer to the b oot time messages on th e de vice consol e. An example is as follo ws: Attached [...]

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    8 Installing Hard Disk Drives in the Cisco Wide Ar ea Ap plication Engine 611 78-17404-01 Removing and Replac ing a SCSI Hard Disk Drive Step 3 Po wer do wn the de vice and peripheral de vices, and disconnect the po w er cord and all external cables. Step 4 Press the release tabs on the bezel, and pull the bezel a way from the chassis. (See Figure [...]

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    9 Installing Hard Disk Drives in th e Cisco Wide Area Application Engine 611 78-17404-01 Replacing the Cover and B ezel and Completin g the Installation Step 11 Connect the power and SCSI cables to the dri ve. If you disconnected the IDE cable to the CD-R OM, reconnect it. Step 12 Make sure that your cables are ly ing flat inside the cha ssis, so t[...]

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    10 Installing Hard Disk Drives in the Cisco Wide Ar ea Ap plication Engine 611 78-17404-01 Obtaining Documentation T o complete your instal lation, follo w these steps: Step 1 Install the cov er . Place it into position, slide it forw ard, and then tighten the ca ptiv e screw (l abeled 1 in Figure 2 ). Caution Before sliding the co ver forw ard, ma[...]

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    11 Installing Hard Disk Drives in th e Cisco Wide Area Application Engine 611 78-17404-01 Obtaining Technical Assista nce If you prefer to see advisories an d notices as they are updated in real time, you can acces s a Product Security Incident Response T eam Really Simple Syndication (PSIR T RSS) feed from this URL: http://www .cisco.com/en/US/pro[...]

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    12 Installing Hard Disk Drives in the Cisco Wide Ar ea Ap plication Engine 611 78-17404-01 Obtaining Technica l Assistance Access to all tools on the Ci sco T echnical Support & Documentat ion website requires a Ci sco.com user ID and password. If you ha ve a v alid service contract b ut do not ha ve a user ID or password, you can regist er at [...]

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    13 Installing Hard Disk Drives in th e Cisco Wide Area Application Engine 611 78-17404-01 Obtaining Technical Assista nce Definitions of Service Request Severity T o ensure that all s ervice reque sts are rep orted in a standard format, Cisco has established se verity definitions. Se verit y 1 (S1)—Y our network is “do wn, ” or there is a cri[...]

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    14 Installing Hard Disk Drives in the Cisco Wide Ar ea Ap plication Engine 611 78-17404-01 Obtaining Technica l Assistance This document is to be used in co njunction with th e documents listed i n the “Related Documentation” section. © 2006 Cisc o Systems, Inc. All rights reserv ed. Printed in the U SA on rec ycled paper con taining 10% post [...]