IBM RS/6000 7025 manual Installing Internal Drives, Cd-Rom

Installing Internal Drives

If	you add different types	of drives, your	system can read	multiple types o
and	store more data. Several	types of drives	are available ,	such as:

ŸDiskette

ŸDisk drive

ŸCD-ROM

ŸTape

Note: If you are installing a CD-ROM drive, refer to xiii before installing the

Internal

drives

are installedbays. A diskettein drive is preinstalled in bay A2 and a

CD-ROM

drive

is

preinstalled

in

bay

A1 in

all

models.

You

can

install

a

media

driv

in bay

B1

or

B2.

The

base system

has a hot-swap backplane installed

in

bank

C. You

can

install

six

hot-swappable

disk

drives into

the

bays

in

bank

C.

You

can

order

additional

hot-swap

backplanes

for banks D

and

E. Banks

C,

D,

and

E

each

contain

six

bays.

You

can

install

up

to six disk drives in bank

C,

bank

D,

or

bank

E.

You

can

order

an

optional

feature

that

lets

you

install

non

hot-swappable

disk

dri

into bays B1 and B2.

Note:

The

bank

letter-designations are located

on

both

vertical

rails

on

the front

the system. The bay-slot numbers are located on

the

top

of

bank

C

and

the

bottom

of

bank E.

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