Replacing A Compactflash Card - Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Hardware Installation And Reference Manual

Chapter 9 Replacement Procedures
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To replace a Cisco Nexus 7018 fan tray (N7K-C7018-FAN=), follow these steps:
Place an antistatic mat or antistatic foam where you can place two fan trays.
Step 1
Choose a place that prevents damage to the fan trays while they are outside the chassis.
Unpack and place the replacement fan tray on the antistatic mat or antistatic foam.
Step 2
Loosen the four captive screws on the fan tray that you are replacing by turning them counterclockwise
Step 3
until they are free of the chassis.
Grasp the fan tray handle with one hand and pull the fan tray part way out of its slot on the chassis.
Step 4
If the fan tray power connector does not easily unseat from the backplane, rock it gently.
Place a hand under the bottom side of the fan tray to support it and pull the fan tray out of the chassis.
Step 5
Place the fan tray on an antistatic pad or repack it in its original packing materials.
Step 6
Grasp the handle for the replacement fan tray in one hand and orient the fan tray so that the lettering on
Step 7
the LED labels is upright and readable.
Place one hand under the bottom side of the fan tray, lift the fan tray to the open fan tray slot, align the
Step 8
fan tray with the top and bottom chassis guides for the slot, and push the fan tray into the chassis until
the power connector seats in the backplane and the captive screws are aligned to their holes in the
chassis.
Step 9 Tighten the captive screws to 8 in-lb (0.9 N·m).
Make sure that the STATUS LED turns on and is green.
Step 10

Replacing a CompactFlash Card

You can replace a CompactFlash card in either flash memory reader on any supervisor module. The
replacement card must already be formatted for the reader or you must reformat the card after installing
it.
Note
To replace a CompactFlash card, follow these steps:
Press the Eject Request button for the reader that has the card to be replaced.
Step 1
Wait for the reader LED to turn off.
Step 2
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Step 3 Press the Eject button next to the reader.
The reader ejects the card part way out of the slot.
Remove the card from the reader.
Step 4
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The LOG FLASH and EXPANSION FLASH readers require different formats for their cards.
If you are removing a log flash card, you will see the following message:
switch# 2008 Mar 15 10:00:00 switch %$ VDC-1 %$ %IDEHSD-2-UMOUNT:logflash:offline
If you are removing an expansion flash card, you will see the following message:
switch# 2008 Mar 15 10:00:00 switch %$ VDC-1 %$ %IDEHSD-2-UMOUNT:slot0:offline
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