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Removal and replacement procedures 37
Hard drive cage and backplane
To remove the component:
1. Power down the server (on page 29).
2. Do one of the following:
Open or remove the tower bezel, as needed ("Front bezel" on page 30).
Extend the server from the rack (on page 29).
3. Remove the access panel ("Access panel" on page 31).
4. Remove the rack bezel (rack servers only) ("Rack bezel" on page 31).
5. Remove all hard drives ("Hard drive" on page 36) and hard drive blanks ("Hard drive blank" on
page 35).
6. Disconnect the 10-pin power cable from the drive cage backplane.
NOTE: The center wall is removed for illustration purposes only.
7. Disconnect the SAS-SATA cables from the SAS backplane.