Gateway 9210 Personal Computer User Manual


 
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Installing drives
Your server’s standard configuration includes one CD drive, a 3.25 inch diskette drive, and
one SATA hard drive. Your server also has one additional 5.25-inch external drive bay, one
additional 3.5-inch external drive bay, and two additional internal drive bays.
As you prepare to install drives, remember:
Before you install a drive, see the drive’s documentation for information on
configuring the drive, setting drive jumpers, and attaching cables.
You may need to configure the drives you install using the BIOS Setup utility. Press
F2 at startup to open the BIOS Setup utility.
Parallel ATA (PATA) hard drives, also known as IDE hard drives, can be configured as
single, master, slave, or cable-select. IDE CD drives can be configured as master, slave,
or cable-select.
If cable-select is available (drive assignments will be marked on the cable), the PATA
cable assigns the master/slave positions to the drives it connects. You can override
these assignments using the jumpers on the drives.
If cable-select is not available and only one drive is attached to a PATA controller
cable, configure the drive as master if it is a CD drive. If two drives of any type
are attached to the cable, configure one as master and one as slave.
5.25-inch drive bay
3.5-inch drive bay
CD drive
3.5-inch diskette drive