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."

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