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Dell PowerEdge T130 Owner's Manual

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Removing the optical drive blank and filler

The optical drive blank is on the bezel and the optical drive filler is located in the optical drive slot on the hard drive cage.

Prerequisites

  1. Ensure that you follow the Safety instructions.
  2. Follow the procedure listed in Before working inside your system.
  3. Disconnect all peripherals connected to the control panel assembly.
  4. Remove the bezel.
  5. If connected, disconnect the power and data cable from the optical drive and hard drives.
  6. Remove the hard drive cage.

Steps

  1. On the bezel, press down on the retention clip of the optical drive blank and pull the blank out of the bezel.
    Figure 1. Removing the optical drive blank from the bezel
    The figure shows removing the optical drive blank from the bezel.
    1. bezel
    2. retention clip
    3. optical drive blank
    4. optical drive blank locking tab (2)
  2. On the hard drive cage, hold the tabs on the optical drive filler and remove the optical drive filler from the hard drive cage.
    Figure 2. Removing the optical drive filler
    The figure shows removing optical drive filler from the hard drive cage.
    1. optical drive bay
    2. tabs (4)
    3. optical drive filler
    4. hard drive cage

Next steps

  1. Install the hard drive cage.
  2. Reconnect the disconnected data and power cables to the hard drives and optical drive.
  3. Install the bezel.
  4. Reconnect all peripherals disconnected from the control panel assembly.
  5. Follow the procedure listed in After working inside your system.

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