Installing Additional Drives
When installing additional drives, follow these guidelines:
●The primary Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive must be connected to the dark blue primary SATA connector on the system board labeled SATA0.
●Connect the first SATA optical drive to the white SATA connector on the system board labeled SATA1.
●Always populate the dark blue SATA0 and white SATA1 connectors before the light blue SATA2 and orange SATA3 connectors.
●Connect a second SATA optical drive to the orange SATA3 connector.
●Connect additional SATA hard drives to the next available (unpopulated) SATA connector on the system board in the following order: SATA0, SATA1, SATA3, SATA2.
●Connect a diskette drive to the connector labeled FLOPPY.
●Connect a media card reader to the USB connector labeled F_USB2.
●The system does not support Parallel ATA (PATA) optical drives or PATA hard drives.
●You may install either a
●If needed, HP has provided extra drive retainer screws on the interior of the front bezel that are used to secure the drives in the drive cage. Hard drives use
Figure 2-16 Extra Drive Retainer Screws Location
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