Internal Drives

Adding different

types

of drives

enables

your

system unit to rea

and provides more storage for your system unit.

 

Internal

drives

are installedbays. Yourin system unit

has

5 bays:

Ÿ

Bay

1

has

a

3.5-inch diskette

drive installed.

Ÿ

Bay

2

has

a

CD-ROM

drive installed.

 

 

ŸBay 3 can accommodate the following devices, up to half-height tall:

tape drives

CD-ROM drives

 

3.5-inch

disk drives (with mounting brackets)

 

 

Ÿ

Bay

4

can

accommodate only 3.5-inch disk drives up to 25mm (1 i

Ÿ

Bay

5

can

accommodate only 3.5-inch disk drives.

 

 

 

In

 

the

Model

140

and

Model 150,

up to

25-mm (1-inch)

high

disk

 

 

be

used.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In

 

the

Model

240,

up

to 43-mm

(1.7-inch)

disk drives

can

be

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IBM RS/6000 7043 43P manual Internal Drives