Removing a RAID cache card

Use this information to remove a RAID cache card.

Note

For additional information and notes about the adapters, see Installing an adapter.

To remove a RAID cache card, complete the following steps:

1. Read the safety information and installation guidelines, see Safety and Installation guidelines.
2. Turn off the server (see Turning off the server) and all attached peripheral devices. Disconnect all power cords; then, disconnect all external cables as necessary to replace the device.
3. Remove the top cover (see Removing the server top cover).
4. If the cache card is installed on the system board, complete the following steps.
   1. Disconnect the cable from the flash power module in the battery/flash power module tray located on top of the USB/video assembly near the front of the server.
   2. Press the blue lever down to the open position. The cache card will disengage from the RAID cache card connector on the system board.

      

   3. Disconnect the flash power module cable from the cache card.
   4. Press the black retention clip toward the front of the server and lift the cache card out of the server and set it aside.
   5. Go tostep 6.
5. If the cache card is installed on a RAID adapter, complete the following steps:
   1. Disconnect the cable from the flash power module in the battery/flash power module tray located on top of the USB/video assembly.
   2. Grasp the riser-card assembly at the blue touch points and pull it up until the riser-card assembly disengages from the connector on the system board.
   3. Disconnect the cache card cable from the cache card on the RAID adapter.
   4. Remove the adapter from the riser-card assembly (see Removing an adapter).
   5. Press the black retention clip away from the cache card and lift the cache card off the adapter and set it aside.

      

6. If you are instructed to return the cache card, follow all packaging instructions, and use any packaging materials for shipping that are supplied to you.