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Installing Drives
Dell™PowerEdge™1600SCSystemsInstallationandTroubleshootingGuide
Your system can contain the following drives:
l Up to two externally accessible 5.25-inch drives (typically CD drives or tape drives). A CD or other optical drive is standard in the first external drive bay,
and an additional drive of your choice can be installed in the remaining external drive bay.
l An externally accessible 3.5-inch diskette drive.
l Up to four 1-inch non-hot-plug IDE or SCSI hard drives.
l Up to six hot-plug SCSI hard drives.
Connecting Drives
Interface Cables
Most interface connectors are keyed for correct insertion. When you disconnect an interface cable, take care to grasp the cable connector, rather than the
cable itself, to avoid stress on the cable.
Drive Cable Configurations
Your system can accommodate many different drive configurations, each with specific cable requirements. Table7-1 shows the cable requirements for common
drive configurations.
Table 7-1.DriveCableConfiguration
DC Power Cables
Connecting Drives
Front-Panel Drive Inserts
IDE Configuration Information
5.25-Inch Drives
SCSI Configuration Information
Hard Drives
Configuring the Boot Drive
Installing a RAID Controller Card
Diskette Drive
Drives
Required Cable
Cable Connections
IDE CD drive, DVD drive, or combination drive
(See Figure7-4.)
40-pin IDE 2-drop cable
IDE drive and secondary IDE connector on system board
Up to two IDE hard drives (See Figure7-8.)
80-pin IDE 2-drop cable
IDE hard drives and primary IDE connector on system board
Three or four IDE hard drives (See Figure7-
11.)
80-pin IDE bundled 4-drop cable
IDE hard drives and IDE RAID controller card
Up to four non-hot-plug SCSI hard-drives
(See Figure7-9 and Figure7-10.)
66-cm (26-inch) or 94-cm (37-inch) 68-pin SCSI
4-drop cable (terminated)
660-cm (26-inch) cable to SCSI hard drives and SCSI
controller on system board (See Figure7-9.)
or
94-cm (37-inch) cable to SCSI hard drives and SCSI RAID
controller (See Figure7-10.)
Up to six hot-plug SCSI hard drives (See
Figure7-12 and Figure7-13.)
38-cm (15-inch) or 63-cm (25-inch) 68-pin SCSI
1-drop cable (unterminated)
38-cm (15-inch) cable to SCSI backplane and SCSI
connector on system board (See Figure7-12.)
or
63-cm (25-inch) cable to SCSI backplane and RAID controller
card (See Figure7-13.)
SCSI tape drive (See Figure7-5 and
Figure7-6.)
68-pin SCSI 1-drop cable (terminated)
SCSI tape drive and SCSI controller on system board (See
Figure7-5.)
or
SCSItapedriveandSCSIcontrollercardifSCSIcontrolleris
used for SCSI hard drives (See Figure7-6.)
NOTE: For the full name of an abbreviation or acronym used in this table, see "Abbreviations and Acronyms."
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