Acer Altos R510 manual Installing or Removing a Floppy Drive

52 4 Configuring the system

Installing or Removing a Floppy Drive

Floppy drives are installed in different ways, depending on the following items:

1The SATA or SCSI backplane is installed and you want to install the floppy drive into the slimline drive bay.

2No backplane is installed and you want to install the floppy drive into the slimline drive bay.

3The SATA or SCSI backplane is installed and you have installed a CD-ROM or DVD/CD-RW drive into the slimline drive bay. You want to install the floppy drive into a bay that was intended for a hard drive (optional conversion kit is required).

Look carefully at the heading titles below before beginning your installation to be sure you are following the correct instructions for your system.

CAUTION:Floppy drives are NOT hot swappable. Before removing or replacing the drive, you must first take the server out of service, turn off all peripheral devices connected to the system, turn off the system by pressing the power button, and unplug the AC power cord from the system or wall outlet.

Installing a Floppy Drive into Slimline Bay (Backplane Installed)

Use these instructions if you are installing a floppy drive into the Altos R510’s slimline drive bay at the upper left side of your chassis and your system includes either the SATA or SCSI backplane. You will know if you have one of these backplanes installed if you can install either hot- swap SATA or hot-swap SCSI drives.

NOTE: The carrier for the slimline floppy drive that is used in these instructions was sent to you in the hardware kit that came with your system.

1Observe the safety and ESD precautions at the beginning of this book. See “Safety Information.”