Intel SRPL8 manual Peripheral Drives, Installing a 5.25-inch Peripheral in the Front Bay

Peripheral Drives

Installing a 5.25-inch Peripheral in the Front Bay

One 5.25-inch half-height bay provides space for a tape backup, CD-ROM, or other removable media drive.

CAUTIONS

Do not install hard drives in 5.25-inch bays: We recommend that you do NOT install hard drives in the 5.25-inch bays. The drives cannot be properly cooled in this location; also, a hard drive generates EMI and is therefore more susceptible to ESD in this location.

✏NOTES

Save the filler panels and EMI shields: System EMI integrity and cooling are both protected by having drives installed in the bays or filler panels and EMI shields covering the bays. When you install a drive, save the panel and shield to reinstall in case you should later remove the drive and not reinstall one in the same bay.

Bus termination when installing SCSI devices: It is important that your cabling and connections meet the SCSI bus specification. Otherwise, the bus could be unreliable and data corruption could occur or devices might not work at all. The SCSI bus needs to be terminated at the end of the cable; this is usually provided by the last SCSI device on the cable. For more information on connecting the data cable to a drive, see step 9 on page 127.

1.Observe the safety and ESD precautions at the beginning of this chapter.

2.Remove the peripheral bay (see “Removing the Peripheral Bay” on page 117).

3.Remove the drive from its protective wrapper, and place it on an antistatic surface.

4.Record the drive model and serial numbers in your equipment log (page 197).

5.Set any jumpers or switches on the drive according to the drive manufacturer’s instructions.

6.Using two screws of the appropriate size and length (not supplied), attach each plastic slide rail and its metal grounding plate to the drive.

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