Chapter 4

Installing and Removing Drives

This chapter describes how to install and remove optional drives in your computer. You can use these instructions to install a variety of devices, including hard disk, diskette, tape, CD-ROM, and optical drives. Although your drive may look different from the ones illustrated here, you should be able to install it the same way.

Your computer can hold up to seven mass storage devices, as described in the table below.

Drive bay

Drive type and size

 

 

Four externally accessible

Two 5,25-inch, half-height drives or

bays

one 525-inch. full-height drive

 

and two 3 S-inch, half-height drives

 

 

One front internal bay

One 3,5-inch. half-height or third-height

 

drive

 

 

Two rear internal bays

Two 3.5-inch, half-height or third-height, or

 

one 3.5-inch, full-height drive

 

 

Note

The main system board in your computer supports up to two diskette drives (or one diskette drive and one tape drive) and up to two IDE hard disk drives. If you install more than four drives, you must install a drive controller on an option card, such as a SCSI controller card, for the additional drive(s).

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