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Dell Precision 610 mini tower systems have eight drive bays for installing the following types of drives (see Figure 1-5):

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 drive 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 EIDE hard-disk drives or up to four SCSI hard-disk drives.

NOTE: For detailed information about installing SCSI devices, see Chapter 10, “Installing Drives,” in the User’s Guide.

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The enhanced dual-interface EIDE subsystem supports two EIDE interfaces (primary and secondary), each of which can support up to two EIDE devices. The EIDE controller resides on the high-speed PCI bus.

The primary EIDE interface (IDE1) provides support for up to two high- performance EIDE devices. The computer’s boot drive should be connected to the primary EIDE interface.

The secondary EIDE interface (IDE2) also provides support for up to two high- performance EIDE devices, typically EIDE tape drives or CD-ROM drives.

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