Installing Internal Drives
Internal Drive Bays
Internal drives are installed in bays. A diskette drive and a
CD-ROM drive are preinstalled in bay A in all models. A
removable CD storage compartment is shipped in bay B1. You can
install two drives in bay B. You can install hot-swap drives in
banks C, D, and E only. Banks C, D, and E each contain six bays;
each bank can support up to six drives. The number of preinstalled
hard disk drives in bank C varies according to the model that you
purchased. You can install up to six drives in bank D and up to six
drives in bank E.
Note: The bank letter-designations are located on both vertical rails
on the front of the server. The bay-slot numbers are located
on the top of bank C and the bottom of bank E.
In a disk-array model, you can use the SCSI output connector
(daisy-chain connector) on the backplanes to serially link two
adjacent backplanes in banks C, D, and E. When you connect two
banks serially, each bank supports up to three half-high drives or six
slim-high drives. When backplanes are daisy chained, you can
control the hard disk drives in the banks with a single channel on
the ServeRAID adapter. This allows you to support six half-high
drives or 12 slim-high drives on a single channel.
A cover plate (sometimes called a drive bezel or face plate) covers the
front of bay B2 only. If you install a drive that uses removable
media (diskette, optical disc, or tape), you might need to remove or
change this plate.
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PC Server 520 User's Handbook for PCI/Micro Channel
Summary of Contents for PC Server 520
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Page 86: ...Installation Checklist 70 PC Server 520 User s Handbook for PCI Micro Channel...
Page 146: ...Using the Mini Configuration Program 130 PC Server 520 User s Handbook for PCI Micro Channel...
Page 190: ...Using the SCSISelect Utility Program 174 PC Server 520 User s Handbook for PCI Micro Channel...
Page 385: ...Installing Additional Test Programs 207 CMD 3 Chapter 7 Solving Problems 369...
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