IBM manual Installing internal drives, Internal drive bays, IBM xSeries 220 User’s Reference

Installing internal drives

Different types of drives enable your system to read multiple types of media and store more data. Several types of drives are available, such as:

•Diskette (preinstalled)

•Hard disk (preinstalled on some models)

•CD-ROM (preinstalled)

•Tape

Internal drive bays

Internal drives are installed in bays. The bays of the xSeries 220 are in the front of the server, as shown in the following illustration.

Note: The illustrations in this document might differ slightly from your hardware.

Bay 1

Bay 2

Bay 3

Bay4

Bay 5

Bay 6

Bay 7

To remove or install a drive, you must turn off the server first, unless you are removing or installing a hot-swap hard disk drive. Diskette drives, tape drives, and CD-ROM drives are removable-media drives. You can install removable-media drives in bays 1, 2, 3, and 4. You can install SCSI hard disk drives in bays 4, 5, 6, and 7.

•Your server comes with a 3.5-inch, 1.44 MB diskette drive in bay 3, an integrated drive electronics (IDE) CD-ROM drive in bay 1, and a hard disk drive in bay 7 (in some models).

•The xSeries 220 server supports five 3.5-inch drives; however, the server supports only one diskette drive.

•The diskette drive uses 1 MB and 2 MB diskettes. For optimum use, format 1 MB diskettes to 720 KB and format 2 MB diskettes to 1.44 MB.

•The xSeries 220 server supports two 5.25-inch drives and four SCSI hard disk drives. The server does not support IDE hard disk drives. Some models support hot-swap hard disk drives. Other models support only non-hot-swap hard disk

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