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Appendix C: SAS-827T Backplane Speciciations
Appendix C
SAS-827T Safety Guidelines
To avoid personal injury and property damage, carefully follow all the safety steps
listed below when accessing your system or handling the components.
C-1 ESD Safety Guidelines
Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) can damage electronic com ponents. To prevent dam-
age to your system, it is important to handle it very carefully. The following measures
are generally sufcient 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.•
C-2 General Safety Guidelines
Always disconnect power cables before installing or removing any components •
from the computer, including the SAS-827T backplane.
Disconnect the power cable before installing or removing any cables from the •
SAS-827T backplane.
Make sure that the SAS-827T backplane is securely and properly installed on •
the motherboard to prevent damage to the system due to power shortage.