Installing Drives 10-1

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Your Dell compute r has eight dri ve b ay s f or installi ng the f oll owing types of dr ives (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 di ske tte drive) and three
5.25-inch bays that can hold up to three half-height, 5.25-inch devices—typically
tape driv es or CD-ROM driv es. Alterna tely , 3.5 -inc h dev ices can be installed in the
5.25-inch bays usin g adapters available from Dell.
The four-bay hard-disk drive cage below the externally accessible bays can hold
up to f our 1-inch or up to tw o 1-inch and two 1.6-inch hard-dis k driv e s installed v e r-
tically. 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 instal-
lation 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 compu t er.