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3.1.1.4 Bays
The system contains five bays, three of which accommodate the following
standard devices:
• 3.5-inch diskette drive bay
It accommodates the standard 1.44 MB diskette drive.
• 5.25-inch CD-ROM drive bay
It accommodates the standard 32X CD-ROM drive with the convenience
of loading a CD without a caddy.
• 5.25-inch disk drive bay.
It accommodates the standard 4.5 GB Ultra SCSI disk drive that can be
upgraded in the initial machine order to 9.1 GB Ultra SCSI disk. For more
detailed information about the disk drives see Table 29 on page 121.
Figure 20. RS/6000 43P 7043 Model 150 - Front View
The empty bays can accommodate a second CD-ROM, tape drive or other
media device. A 4.5 GB (# 2900) or 9.1 GB (# 2908) hard disk can be
installed in bay 3 with a mounting kit (# 6509).
3.1.1.5 Internal CD-ROM Drive
The 32X SCSI-2 Internal CD-ROM Drive is a tray loading CD-ROM drive
providing up to 4800 KB/s maximum media data transfer rate. It is a 5.25 inch
half-high form factor, single ended, 8 bit, multi-session capable, CD-ROM
drive that provides state-of-the-art performance and supports existing 600
MB CD-ROM discs. It supports either the standard 12 cm or the smaller 8 cm
CD-ROM disk.