Reference Guide

Dell PowerEdge 1300 Systems EIDE Hard-Disk Drive Update 1
Dell™ PowerEdge™ 1300 Systems
EIDE Hard-Disk Drive Update
This document updates information contained in your Dell PowerEdge 1300 Systems
Installation and Troubleshooting Guide. It describes how to install and use the
enhanced integrated drive electronics (EIDE) hard-disk drives supported by your sys-
tem and provides an EIDE-related update to your System Setup program information.
The integrated EIDE controller in the PowerEdge 1300 supports up to two optional
1-inch or 1.6-inch EIDE hard-disk drives. These drives can be installed vertically in the
removable hard-disk drive cage located below the external drive bays at the front of
the computer.
NOTE: Alternatively, the drive cage provides space for up to four 1-inch small com-
puter system interface (SCSI) drives or a mix of up to two 1.6-inch and up to two
1-inch SCSI drives. Your Installation and Troubleshooting Guide describes how to
install and use SCSI devices.
EIDE hard-disk drives attach to the integrated EIDE controller through the 40-pin IDE1
connector on the system board.
Installing an EIDE Drive
This section includes information on addressing, installing, partitioning, and formatting
EIDE hard-disk drives.
EIDE Drive Addressing
All EIDE devices should be configured for the cable select jumper position, which
assigns master and slave status to devices by their position on the EIDE cable. When
two EIDE devices are connected to a single EIDE cable and are configured for the
cable select jumper position, the device attached to the last connector on the inter-
face cable is the master or boot device (drive 0) and the device attached to the middle
connector on the interface cable is the slave device (drive 1). Refer to the drive docu-
mentation in your upgrade kit for information on setting devices to the cable select
jumper position.