Installing Drives 10-21
NOTE: After y ou remo v e and repl ace th e co v er, the chassis intr usi on dete ctor w ill
cause the following message to be displayed at the next system start-up:
ALERT! Cover was previously removed.
See Chapter 3, “Using the System Setup Program,” for instructions.
NOTE: If a setup password has been assigned by someone else, contact your
network administrator for information on resetting the chassis intrusion detector.
For any SCSI devices, the respective category under Drives: Primary or Drives:
Secondary should be set to None. For instructions, see Chapter 3, “Using the
System Setup Program.”
For instructions, see the next subsection, “Partitioning and Formatting SCSI
Hard-Disk Drives,” and your operating system documentation.
Test a SCSI hard-dis k driv e by r unni ng the SCSI diagno stics. See your
Diagn ostic s
and Troubles ho oti ng Guide
for information on running the Dell Diagnostics and
troubleshooting any problems that may occur.
To test a SCSI tape drive, refer to the documentation for the tape drive soft ware
to perform a tape drive backup and verification test.
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You may need to use different programs than those provided with the operating sys-
tem to partition and format SCSI hard-disk drives. Refer to the documentation that
came with your S CSI software dr ivers for information on installing the appropriate
drivers and preparing your SCSI hard-disk drive for use.
NOTE: When using the Windows NT operating system with the FAT 16 file system,
the primary partition for each hard-disk drive can be no larger than 2 GB. Extended
partitions can be larger than 2 GB, but each logical drive within an extended partition
must be no larger than 2 GB.