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Getting to Know Your LifeBook
-Figure 2-19 Flexible Bay
Flexible Bay Devices
Your Lifebook contains a Flexible Bay. The Flexible Bay
can accommodate a modular DVD drive, CD-ROM
drive, CD-RW drive, floppy disk drive, SuperDisk drive,
Lithium ion battery, weight saver or additional hard
drive. (Figure 2-19)
You Flexible Bay will have one of the following devices
installed. All devices listed here are also optional which
can be purchased separately. (Figure2-20)
■Modular DVD drive: This allows you to access movies,
software and audio DVD/CDs.
■Modular CD-RW drive: This allows you to access
both software and audio CDs as well as the ability
to write to CDs.
■Modular CD-ROM drive: This allows you to access
both software and audio CDs.
■Modular 3.5" floppy disk drive: This is a 3.5" drive
with the ability to read and write information on
removable 1.44MB and 720KB floppy disks.
■Modular SuperDisk drive: This is an optional
120MB floppy disk drive made by Imation, for use
with your LifeBook.
■Modular Lithium ion battery: This is a rechargeable
battery that can be used to power your LifeBook
when an adapter is not connected.
■Modular hard drive: This is an optional hard drive
that can be used in conjunction with your internal
hard drive for more storage capacity.
■Weight Saver: This is used to fill the bay when no
device is needed.
Figure 2-20 Flexible Bay Devices

REMOVING AND INSTALLING

MODULAR DEVICES

There are two ways to remove and install modular
devices in the Flexible Bay:
■Cold-swapping: swapping devices while your
LifeBook is powered off.
■Hot-swapping: swapping devices while your
system is active using BayManager™ software.
Flexible Bay
WARNING
You should never leave your Flexible Bay empty when
the LifeBook is in operation.
Floppy Disk Drive
Lithium ion Battery
SuperDisk Drive
CD-ROM Drive
Hard Drive
CD-RW Drive
Weight Saver
DVD Drive
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