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Appendix B: SAS-846TQ Backplane Specications

Appendix B

SAS-846TQ Backplane Specications

To avoid personal injury and property damage, carefully follow all the safety steps

listed below when accessing your system or handling the components.

B-1 ESD Safety Guidelines

Electriostatic Discharge (ESD) can damage electronic com ponents. To prevent

damage to your system, it is important to handle it very carefully. The following

measures are generally sufcient to protect your equipment from ESD.

• Use a grounded wrist strap designed to prevent static discharge.

• Touch a grounded metal object before removing a component from the antistatic

bag.

• Handle the backplane by its edges only; do not touch its components, peripheral

chips, memory modules or gold contacts.

• When handling chips or modules, avoid touching their pins.

• Put the card and peripherals back into their antistatic bags when not in use.

B-2 General Safety Guidelines

• Always disconnect power cables before installing or removing any components

from the computer, including the backplane.

• Disconnect the power cable before installing or removing any cables from the

backplane.

• Make sure that the backplane is securely and properly installed on the mother-

board to prevent damage to the system due to power shortage.