Installing or Removing Internal Drives

Bay

Drive Width

Drive Type

 

Drive Height

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A

5.25-inch

Removable

media

41.3

mm

(1.6

in.)

 

 

 

 

 

1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

drive only

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

B

5.25-inch

CD-ROM

 

41.3

mm

(1.6

in.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

C

3.5-inch

Diskette

drive

25.4

mm

(1.0

in.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

3.5-inch

Hot-swap

hard disk 25.4

mm

(1.0

in.) –

Slim line

(SL)

through

 

 

 

41.3

mm

2

in–.)Half

height

(HH)

5

 

 

 

(1.6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Notes:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1.Removable media includes CD-ROMs, optical discs, and tapes. It does not include h drives.

2.A 41.3 mm drive installed in bays 1 through 5 will occupy two bays.

Table 1. Maximum Allowable Drive Sizes

Types of Cables

Drives connect

to your server

with cables. Each cable connector is d

a corresponding

connector on a

drive.

Three types of internal cables connect to the drives in your server

Ÿ A four-wire power cable connects to each drive.

Ÿ A flat-ribbon signal cable connects to IDE devices.

– One flat-ribbon cable connects the internal diskette drive.

The connector on one end of this cable attaches to the syste primary diskette drive installed in your server (usually known as attached to the connector on the other end of this cable.

Note: The primary diskette drive must always be attached to t connector on the end of this cable.

– A second flat-ribbon cable connects the CD-ROM drive.

This cable has two drive connectors. A

third connector attaches

system

board. The

CD-ROM

drive

that comes with your server is

to the

connector

on the

end

of this

cable.

ŸAnother cable connects internal SCSI devices. This SCSI cable has tw

connectors that connect to SCSI devices:

– One to the backplane of the DASD hot-swap enclosure

– One to a SCSI device you install in the open 5.25-inch bay

A third connector attaches to the SCSI connector on the system bo

External

SCSI

devices

usually

come

with a

SCSI cable. You attach

one

SCSI

cable

to the SCSI connector

on the back of the server, and the

the

SCSI

device. You

usually

can

attach

additional SCSI devices

to th

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