Installing drives
Your server’s standard configuration includes one CD drive, a 3.25 inch diskette drive, and one SATA hard drive. Your server also has one additional 5.25-inch external drive bay, one additional 3.5-inch external drive bay, and two additional internal drive bays.
CD drive
5.25-inch drive bay
3.5-inch drive bay
3.5-inch diskette drive
As you prepare to install drives, remember:
■Before you install a drive, see the drive’s documentation for information on configuring the drive, setting drive jumpers, and attaching cables.
■You may need to configure the drives you install using the BIOS Setup utility. Press F2 at startup to open the BIOS Setup utility.
■Parallel ATA (PATA) hard drives, also known as IDE hard drives, can be configured as single, master, slave, or cable-select. IDE CD drives can be configured as master, slave, or cable-select.
■If cable-select is available (drive assignments will be marked on the cable), the PATA cable assigns the master/slave positions to the drives it connects. You can override these assignments using the jumpers on the drives.
■If cable-select is not available and only one drive is attached to a PATA controller cable, configure the drive as master if it is a CD drive. If two drives of any type are attached to the cable, configure one as master and one as slave.