Dell 1600SC Installing Drives, Connecting Drives, Interface Cables, Drive Cable Configurations

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Installing Drives

Dell™ PowerEdge™ 1600SC Systems Installation and Troubleshooting Guide

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

 

 

 

Your system can contain the following drives:

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.

An externally accessible 3.5-inch diskette drive.

Up to four 1-inch non-hot-plug IDE or SCSI hard drives.

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

Drives

Required Cable

Cable Connections

 

 

 

IDE CD drive, DVD drive, or combination drive

40-pin IDE 2-drop cable

IDE drive and secondary IDE connector on system board

(See Figure 7-4.)

 

 

 

 

 

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-

80-pin IDE bundled 4-drop cable

IDE hard drives and IDE RAID controller card

11.)

 

 

 

 

 

Up to four non-hot-plug SCSI hard-drives

66-cm (26-inch) or 94-cm (37-inch) 68-pin SCSI

660-cm (26-inch) cable to SCSI hard drives and SCSI

(See Figure 7-9 and Figure 7-10.)

4-drop cable (terminated)

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

38-cm (15-inch) or 63-cm (25-inch) 68-pin SCSI

38-cm (15-inch) cable to SCSI backplane and SCSI

Figure 7-12 and Figure 7-13.)

1-drop cable (unterminated)

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

68-pin SCSI 1-drop cable (terminated)

SCSI tape drive and SCSI controller on system board (See

Figure 7-6.)

 

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."

DC Power Cables

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