Prerequisites
Follow the safety guidelines listed in safety instructions section.
Follow the procedure listed in Before working inside your system section.
CAUTION:Many repairs may only be done by a certified service technician. You should only perform troubleshooting and simple repairs as authorized in your product documentation, or as directed by the online or telephone service and support team. Damage due to servicing that is not authorized by Dell is not covered by your warranty. Read and follow the safety instructions that are shipped with your product.
Removing the optical drive:
Disconnect the power and data cable from the back of the drive.
NOTE:Observe the routing of the power and data cable inside the chassis as you remove them from the system board and the drive. You must route these cables properly when you replace them to prevent them from being pinched or crimped.
To remove the drive, push the release latch as indicated in the figure.
Slide the drive out of the drive bay.
If you are not immediately replacing the optical drive or tape drive, install the blank.
NOTE:Blanks must be installed on empty optical drive or tape drive slots to maintain FCC certification of the system. The brackets also keep dust and dirt out of the system and aid in proper cooling and airflow inside the system. Perform the same steps to install blanks.
optical drive/tape drive
guide
release latch
NOTE:The following figure shows the cabling diagram for an optical drive/tape drive with an x16 backplane. All backplanes (x8, x18, and x16) have an ODD connector.
ODD1/TBU connector on system board
ODD2/TBU connector on system board
mini-SAS/SATA connector on internal tape adapter
internal tape adapter
system board
SAS tape drive
optical drive 2
optical drive 1
Installing the optical drive:
Unpack and prepare the drive for installation.
For instructions, see the documentation that shipped with the drive.
If you are installing a SAS tape drive, you must have an internal tape adapter installed. For more information on installing a SAS tape drive, see installing an expansion card section.
If applicable, remove the old drive or the drive blank.
Align the guide on the drive with the slot on drive bay.
Slide the drive into the slot until the latch snaps into place.
Connect the power and data cable to the back of the drive.
Connect the power and data cables to the backplane and the system board.
The system board connectors are ODD1/TBU and ODD2/TBU. The system can connect up to two optical drives, or one optical drive with one SATA tape backup unit, and one SAS tape backup unit using Dell OpenManage IT Assistant.
NOTE:For systems configured with software RAID and installed with PowerVault RD1000, connect the PowerVault RD1000 data cable to ODD1/TBU (SATA_E) port and the optical drive data cable to ODD2/TBU (SATA_F) port on the system board respectively.
optical drive/tape drive
guide
release latch
