Dell 610 technical specifications Removing and Replacing the Front Bezel, Drive Locations

Installing Drives: Dell™ Precision™ WorkStation 610 Mini Tower Systems User's Guide

Overview	Removing and Replacing the Front Bezel	Removing and Replacing Front-Panel Inserts
Connecting Drives	Installing a Drive in a 5.25-Inch Drive Bay	Installing an EIDE Hard-Disk Drive
Installing SCSI Devices

Overview

Your Dell computer has eight drive bays for installing the following types of drives (see Figure 10-1):

The externally accessible drive bays at the front of the computer consist of one 3.5-inch drive bay (dedicated to a 3.5-inch slimline diskette drive) and three 5.25-inch bays that can hold up to three half-height, 5.25-inch devices - typically tape drives or CD-ROM drives. Alternately, 3.5-inch devices can be installed in the 5.25-inch bays using adapters available from Dell.

The four-bay hard-disk drive cage below the externally accessible bays can hold up to four 1-inch or up to two 1-inch and two 1.6-inch hard-disk drives installed vertically. The maximum number of hard-disk drives must be either two enhanced integrated drive electronics (EIDE) hard-disk drives or up to four small computer system interface (SCSI) hard-disk drives.

The next three sections contain information that you will need in several of the installation procedures described later in the chapter. The remaining sections of this chapter cover each type of drive installation.

NOTE: In all of the following procedures, left and right refer to your left and right as you face the front of the computer.

Figure 10-1. Drive Locations

Removing and Replacing the Front Bezel

The bezel is secured to the front of the chassis by two tabs and two hooks. The tab release for the bezel is at the top of the computer chassis and can be accessed only with the computer cover removed (see "Removing the Computer Cover"). With the cover removed, release the bezel by pressing the tab release marked with the icon (see Figure 10-2).