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Installing drives
Your server’s basic configuration includes one CD or DVD drive and one 3.5-inch diskette drive.
Your server also has an additional 5.25-inch drive bay and 3.5-inch drive bay.
Your server can have as many as four SATA (standard) or SCSI (optional) drives in three internal
drive bays and one external fixed drive bay (the bottom 3.5-inch bay).
As you prepare to install drives, remember:
• Do not use the top 5.25-inch drive bay for drives which have electronic components
exposed on the top. Drive mounting rails at the top of the bay may damage any exposed
electronic components.
• Before you install a drive, see the drive’s documentation for information on configuring
the drive, setting drive jumpers, and attaching cables.
• IDE drives can be configured as master, slave, or cable-select.
• If cable-select is available (drive assignments will be marked on the cable), the IDE 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 an IDE controller cable,
configure the drive as master if it is a CD or DVD drive. If two drives of any type are
attached to the cable, configure one as master and one as slave.
• You may need to configure the drives you install using the BIOS Setup utility. Press F2 at
startup to open the BIOS Setup utility.
Installing or replacing a fixed or removable-media drive
Use these instructions to install or replace a diskette, CD, DVD, hard drive, or tape drive.
To install a drive in an external drive bay:
1 Follow the instructions in “Preventing static electricity discharge” on page 18.
2 Follow the instructions in “Opening the server case” on page 19.
5.25-inch drive bay
CD or DVD drive
3.5-inch floppy drive
3.5-inch external drive bay