Personal Computer User Manual

Installing Drives 10-1
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Your Dell computer has eight drive bays for installing the following types of drives (see
Figure 10-1):
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The externally accessible drive bays at the front of the computer consist of one
3.5-inch drive bay (dedicated to a 3.5-inch slimline diskette drive) and three
5.25-inch bays that can hold up to three half-height, 5.25-inch devices—typically
tape drives or CD-ROM drives. Alternately, 3.5-inch devices can be installed in the
5.25-inch bays using adapters available from Dell.
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The four-bay hard-disk drive cage below the externally accessible bays can hold
up to four 1-inch or up to two 1-inch and two 1.6-inch hard-disk drives installed ver-
tically. The maximum number of hard-disk drives must be either two enhanced
integrated drive electronics (EIDE) hard-disk drives or up to four small computer
system interface (SCSI) hard-disk drives.
The next three sections contain information that you will need in several of the instal-
lation procedures described later in the chapter. The remaining sections of this
chapter cover each type of drive installation.
NOTE: In all of the following procedures,
left
and
right
refer to your left and right as
you face the
front
of the computer.