Datasheet

Chassis Peripheral Bays 1U Server Chassis SR1300
Revision 1.2
Intel order number A94544-004
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4.1 Flex Bay Options
The third drive bay, or flex bay, is a multi-purpose drive bay. In SCSI configurations, the flex
bay may be used for either a third hot-swappable SCSI drive or an optional floppy/CDROM or
floppy/DVD module.
For ATA-100 configurations, the flex bay is only used to support these optional modules.
The Floppy/CDROM module is a 3.5” floppy drive and a 0.5” (12.7mm) slim line CD-ROM drive
mounted as a single unit in the flex bay. The Floppy/DVDROM module includes a DVDROM
instead of a CDROM drive. This module cannot be hot swapped. The system must be
powered down before the module can be inserted or removed.
Figure 14. Optional DVD/CD-ROM Drive / FDD Module
4.2 Hard Disk Drive Bays
Depending on which backplane is used, SCSI or ATA, the server chassis SR1300 can support
two or three hard disk drives.
For a SCSI configuration, the chassis will support up to three tray mounted SCA2, 3.5” x 1”,
Ultra2/Ultra160/Ultra 320 hard drives. With proper operating system (OS) or Redundant Array
of Inexpensive Drives (RAID) configuration, SCSI drives may be hot swapped while the system
is running.
For ATA configurations, the chassis will support up to two 3.5” x 1”, ATA-100 hard disk drives.
The third drive bay may be used for an optional floppy/CDROM or floppy/DVD module. ATA
hard drives cannot be hot swapped. Attempting to hot swap an ATA drive may cause
damage to the hard drive and/or cause loss of data.
Note: ATA drives from both Western Digital* and Maxtor* have been found to have their
interface connectors placed in a location that is mechanically not compatible for use with the
ATA backplane of the server chassis SR1300.