Dell R515 manual Optical Drives, Tape Drives External Storage Support

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by the disk drive during normal operation. The bicolor LED is controlled by the SEP device on the backplane. Both LEDs are used to indicate certain conditions under direction of a storage controller.

For more information, see the Hard-Drive Indicator Patterns section in the About Your System chapter in the PowerEdge R515 Hardware Owner’s Manual on Support.Dell.com.

11.6 Optical Drives

The PowerEdge R515 supports one SATA interface, DVD-ROM or DVD+/-RW, in the 8 hard drive chassis. The R515 with the 12 hard drive chassis does not support an optical drive.

11.7 Tape Drives

For more information on supported tape drives and tape libraries, see http://www.dell.com/storage.

11.8 External Storage Support

External storage devices are supported. For more information, see http://www.dell.com/storage.

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