NEC SP B-Series manual Device Preparation, Locating Device Slots

Device Slots

Your computer has seven storage device slots:

one 3 1/2-inch accessible device slot (contains the standard 1.44-MB diskette drive)

Ttwo internal 3 1/2-inch hard drive slots (one contains the hard drive) four accessible device slots

⎯two accessible 5 1/4-inch device slots (one contains the standard CD-ROM/DVD drive)

⎯two 3 1/2-inch device slots; the lower 3 1/2-inch slot is not accessible on the desktop model.

The following figure shows the device slot locations in the system.

Locating Device Slots

A – 3 1/2-Inch Internal Device Slot B – Second 3 1/2-Inch Internal Device Slot

C – 3 1/2-Inch Diskette DriveD – 3 1/2-Inch Device Slots E – 5 1/4-Inch Accessible Device Slots

Device Preparation

Before installing a storage device in the system, follow any preinstallation instructionsTthat come with the device. For example, check the following:

IDE device ⎯ check the jumper settings on the device before installing it. See the documentation that comes with the device for jumper setting information.

⎯An IDE device, such as an IDE hard drive or IDE CD-ROM drive, must be set correctly as the first (master) or second (slave) device on the IDE channel.

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