Safety Information and Technical Specifi cations Safety Information and Technical Specifi cations 1. Safety Guidelines To avoid personal injury and property damage, please carefully follow all the safety steps listed below when accessing your system or handling the components: ESD Safety Guidelines Electric Static 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 suffi 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 RAID card 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. General Safety Guidelines • Always disconnect power cables before installing or removing any components from the computer, including the SCA818S Backplane. • Disconnect the power cable before installing or removing any cable from the SCA818S Backplane. • Make sure that the SCA818S Backplane is securely and properly installed on the motherboard to prevent damage to the system due to power shortage.
An Important Note to the User • All images and layouts shown in this user's guide are based upon the latest PCB Revision available at the time of publishing. The card you've received may or may not look exactly the same as the graphics shown in this manual. A-3