Packard Bell MH4000 manual Removable Media Devices and Diskette Drives

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Removable Media Devices and Diskette Drives

A CD-ROM reader is always mounted in bay A. SCSI removable media devices can be installed in peripheral bays B and C. SCSI devices should be installed in the first available bay from the top (bay A). Figure 5-17 illustrates the recommended removable media configuration. These bays are intended to hold tape, CD-ROM, or other removable media drives. Narrow SCSI drives in the 5 1/4-inch bays receive control signals from a fast/wide SCSI-2 controller on the system board (channel A).

Notice: The SCSI termination resistors must be installed in the last SCSI drive of the daisy chain cabling (top media bay A). All other devices must have terminators removed.

Hard disk drives cannot be installed in a 5 1/4-inch external bay because the drive generates EMI, is more susceptible to ESD, and would not have sufficient cooling.

A 1.44 MB diskette drive is always mounted in bay D.

A second 3 1/2-inch device can be installed in bay E.

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