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

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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 ver- 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 computer.

Installing Drives 10-1