Quantum NDX Series User manual

User’s Guide
Quantum NDX NAS 1U Rack
6-67445-01 Rev A

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Quantum NDX NAS 1U Rack User’s Guide, 6-67445-01 Rev A, October 2011, Product of USA.
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Contents
Preface ix
Chapter 1 Introduction 1
Motherboard Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Serial ATA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
I/O Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Graphics Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Server Chassis Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
System Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
SATA Subsystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Control Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Rear I/O Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Cooling System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Chapter 2 System Safety 5
Electrical Safety Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
General Safety Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
ESD Precautions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

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Operating Precautions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Chapter 3 Server Installation 11
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Unpacking the System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Preparing for Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Choosing a Setup Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Warnings and Precautions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Rack Precautions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Server Precautions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Rack Mounting Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Ambient Operating Temperature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Reduced Airflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Mechanical Loading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Circuit Overloading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Reliable Ground . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Installing the System into a Rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Identifying the Sections of the Rack Rails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Installing the Rear Inner Rails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Installing the Rack Rails. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Installing the Server into a Telco Rack. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Installing Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Installing DIMMs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Memory Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Adding PCI Cards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
PCI Expansion Slots. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
PCI Card Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
PCI Slot/Card
Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Chapter 4 Initial Setup and System Interface 23
Initial Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
First Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Connecting to Ethernet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Hardware Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

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Control Panel Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Control Panel LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Hard Drive Carrier LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Chapter 5 Advanced Chassis Setup 29
I/O Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
.System Fans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
System Fan Failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
SATA Drive Replacement and Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Accessing the Drive Bays. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Mounting a Drive in a Drive Carrier. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Installing/Removing SATA Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
DVD-ROM Drive Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Removing the Chassis Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Removing/Installing a Drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Power Supply Failure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Appendix A BIOS Error Beep Codes 35
Appendix B System Specifications 37

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Figures
Figure 1 Chassis Front View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Figure 2 Chassis Rear View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Figure 3 Installing the Onboard Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Figure 4 Installing the Rear Inner Chassis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Figure 5 Installing the Server into a Rack (with optional front bezel
shown)17
Figure 6 Installing the Server into a Telco Rack (with optional front
bezel shown)18
Figure 7 Installing DIMM into Slot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Figure 8 I/O Ports Diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Figure 9 Mounting Drive in Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

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Preface
This manual introduces the Quantum NDX NAS 1U Rack. This preface
includes:
• About This Manual
• Document Organization
• Notational Conventions
• Product Safety Statements
• Contacts
• Worldwide End-User Product Warranty
About this Manual This manual provides information for the installation and use of the
Quantum NDX NAS 1U Rack chassis. Please read this manual before
performing installation or maintenance.
The Quantum NDX NAS 1U Rack chassis features 4 enterprise class hard
disk drives, Intel Core i3 Processor and 4GB of RAM. The chassis is
equipped with a high-efficiency power supply for superb power savings.
This document lists compatible parts available when this document was
published. Always refer to the our Web site for updates on supported
parts and configurations.

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Document Organization Following is a brief description of chapter contents.
• Chapter 1 Introduction provides a checklist of the main features of
the Quantum NDX NAS 1U Rack.
• Chapter 2 System Safety lists warnings, precautions, and system
safety. It recommended that you thoroughly familiarize yourself
with all safety precautions.
• Chapter 3 provides setup instructions to get your system up and
running, and provides procedures for upgrading system memory,
• Chapter 4 System Interface provides interface details on the system
interface, which includes the functions and information provided by
the control panel on the tower as well as other LEDs located
throughout the system.
• Chapter 5 Advanced Chassis Setup covers the steps required to
install components and perform maintenance on the Quantum NDX
NAS 1U Rack chassis.
• Appendix A: BIOS Error Beep Codes
• Appendix B: System Specifications
Notational Conventions This manual uses the following conventions:
Convention Example
User input is shown in bold font. ./DARTinstall
Computer output and command
line examples are shown in
monospace font.
./DARTinstall
User input variables are enclosed in
angle brackets.
http://<ip_address>/cgi-bin/
stats
For UNIX and Linux commands, the
command prompt is implied.
./DARTinstall
isthesameas
#./DARTinstall

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The following formats indicate important information:
Note: Note emphasizes important information related to the main
topic.
Caution: Caution indicates potential hazards to equipment or data.
WARNING: Warning indicates potential hazards to personal safety.
• Right side of the system — Refers to the right side as you face the
component being described.
• Left side of the system — Refers to the left side as you face the
component being described.
• b — All binary numbers are succeeded by “b.”
• h — All hexadecimal numbers are succeeded by “h.”
• Error or attention conditions are represented in parenthesis that
translate as follows:
(SK=S ASC=AA ASCQ=QQ)
where:
S — hexadecimal sense key value
AA — hexadecimal additional sense code
QQ — hexadecimal additional sense code qualifiers
File and directory names, menu
commands, button names, and
window names are shown in bold
font.
/data/upload
Menu names separated by arrows
indicate a sequence of menus to be
navigated.
Utilities > Firmware
Convention Example

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Product Safety
Statements
Quantum will not be held liable for damage arising from unauthorized
use of the product. The user assumes all risk in this aspect.
This unit is engineered and manufactured to meet all safety and
regulatory requirements. Be aware that improper use may result in
bodily injury, damage to the equipment, or interference with other
equipment.
WARNING: Before operating this product, read all instructions and
warnings in this document and in the system, safety, and
regulatory guide.

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Contacts Visit the Quantum home page at:
http://www.quantum.com
Getting More
Information or Help
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advanced data access and diagnostics technologies with cross-
environment, multi-vendor expertise to resolve backup issues faster and
at lower cost.

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Worldwide End-User
Product Warranty
For more information on the Quantum Worldwide End-User Standard
Limited Product Warranty:
http://www.quantum.com/pdf/QuantumWarranty.pdf

Quantum NDX NAS 1U Rack User’s Guide 1
Chapter 1
Introduction
The Quantum NDX NAS 1U Rack features is a high-end server comprised
of two main subsystems: the server chassis and the single processor
motherboard.
In addition to the motherboard and chassis, various hardware
components are included, as listed below:
• Four sets of 4-cm counter-rotating fans
• One air shroud
• One passive CPU heatsink
• One riser card for one add-on card
• SATA Accessories
•OneSATAbackplane
• Four hard drive carriers
• One rackmount kit

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Motherboard Features
Memory The motherboard four DIMM sockets that can support up to 32 GB of
unbuffered DDR3-1333/1066 memory. Refer to Chapter 3 for installing
memory.
Serial ATA An on-chip SATA controller is integrated into the motherboard to
provide a six-port, 3 Gb/sec Serial ATA subsystem, which is RAID 0, 1, 5
and 10 supported (RAID 5 supported with Windows OS only). The SATA
drives are hot-swappable units.
I/O Ports The color-coded I/O ports include one COM port, a VGA (monitor) port,
two USB 2.0 ports, PS/2 mouse and keyboard ports and two gigabit
Ethernet ports. A dedicated IPMI LAN port is also included.
Graphics Controller The motherboard features an integrated ATI video controller based on
the Matrox G200eW graphics chip, which has 16 MB of DDR2 memory.
Server Chassis Features
Figure 1 Chassis Front View
USB Ports
SATA Drives (4)
COM2 Port Control Panel

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Figure 2 Chassis Rear View
PCI Expansion SlotPower Supply*
Keyboard Port
USB Ports COM1 Port Ethernet Ports
Dedicated IPMI Port
Mouse Port
VGA Port
*The 5017C-MTRF includes two power supplies for redundancy.
The following is a general outline of the main features of the chassis.
System Power The chassis includes a single 350W power supply.
SATA Subsystem The chassis was designed to support four SATA hard drives, which are
hot-swappable units.
Control Panel The control panel provides important system monitoring and control
information. LEDs indicate power on, network activity, hard disk drive
activity and system overheat conditions. The control panel also includes
a main power button and a system reset button. The front also includes
a COM port and two USB serial ports for easy access.

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Rear I/O Panel The rackmount chassis I/O panel provides one PCI motherboard
expansion slot, one COM port (another is internal), two USB ports, a
parallel (printer) port, PS/2 mouse and keyboard ports, a VGA port and
two Gb Ethernet ports.
Cooling System The chassis has an innovative cooling design that features four 4-cm
high-performance system cooling fans and an air shroud. Each of these
fans plug into a chassis fan header on the motherboard. An air shroud
channels the air flow generated by the fans to efficiently cool the
processor area of the system.

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Chapter 2
System Safety
This chapter provides information on warnings, precautions, and system
safety.
Important: Please thoroughly familiarize yourself with all safety
precautions.
Electrical Safety Precautions
Basic electrical safety precautions should be followed to protect yourself
from harm and the Quantum NDX NAS 1U Rack from damage:

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Electrical Safety Precautions
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• Be aware of the locations of the power on/off switch on the chassis
as well as the room’s emergency power-off switch, disconnection
switch or electrical outlet. If an electrical accident occurs, you can
then quickly remove power from the system.
• Do not work alone when working with high-voltage components.•
• Power should always be disconnected from the system when
removing or installing main system components, such as the server
board, memory modules or option peripherals like a DVD-ROM (not
necessary for hot swappable drives). When disconnecting power,
you should first power down the system with the operating system
and then unplug the power cords from all the power supply
modules in the system.
• When working around exposed electrical circuits, another person
who is familiar with the power-off controls should be nearby to
switch off the power, if necessary.
• Use only one hand when working with powered-on electrical
equipment. This is to avoid making a complete circuit, which will
cause electrical shock. Use extreme caution when using metal tools,
which can easily damage any electrical components or circuit boards
they come into contact with.
• Do not use mats designed to decrease electrostatic discharge as
protection from electrical shock. Instead, use rubber mats that have
been specifically designed as electrical insulators.
• The power supply power cord must include a grounding plug and
must be plugged into grounded electrical outlets.
• This product may be connected to an IT power system. In all cases,
make sure that the unit is also reliably connected to Earth (ground).
• Server board battery:
Caution: There is a danger of explosion if the onboard battery is
installed upside down, which will reverse its polarities
This battery must be replaced only with the same or an
equivalent type recommended by the manufacturer.
Dispose of used batteries according to the
manufacturer’s instructions.