Drive cabling information

The server includes four different types of drive cables. Each drive cable is clearly labeled, indicating the cable type and showing which end to connect to the appropriate connector on the system board and which end to connect to the drive.

■Use the diskette drive connector cable to connect the diskette drive.

■Use the standard IDE connector cable to connect the CD drive and an IDE device installed in the 5.25-inch drive bay to the system board.

■Use a narrow SCSI cable to connect a legacy narrow SCSI device in the 5.25-inch drive bay to the legacy narrow SCSI controller integrated onto the system board

■Use the SCSI low-voltage differential (LVD) cable to connect the hot-swap backplane to the integrated SCSI controller on the system board.

Removing a hot-swap drive

The hot-swap drives are located at right side of the front panel. The hot-swap drive bay supports as many as five, 1-inch high 3.5-inch SCSI hard drives.

The hot-swap drives are assigned SCSI ID numbers by the hot-swap backplane with the drive on the right end of the hot-swap bay assigned SCSI ID 0. The backplane assigns SCSI IDs to the other drives in order up to SCSI ID 4 on the left end of the hot-swap bay. See “Hot-swap backplane” on page 15 for the locations of the drives by SCSI ID number.

Important Gateway tests and verifies the operation and compatibility of the drives we sell. Additional or replacement drives must conform to Gateway standards, especially in a RAID or mission-critical environment.

Install the first drive at the right end, then install drives in increasing order by SCSI ID number thereafter. You do not need to turn off the server before you remove or replace a hot-swap drive.

36Replacing and Adding Internal Devices