Installing Options 5-39
Locating Device Slots
The desktop system has four slots and the minitower has six slots as
described below (see the figures on the following page):
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a 3 1/2-inch accessible device slot that contains the standard 1.44-MB
diskette drive
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3 1/2-inch internal hard drive slots (1-inch high,
thin-height)
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desktop: one internal hard drive slot
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minitower: two internal hard drive slots
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5 1/4-inch accessible device slots (1.6-inch high,
half-height)
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desktop: two accessible device slots
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minitower: four accessible device slots.
Depending on your configuration, one accessible device slot might
contain a CD-ROM drive, a DVD-ROM drive, or other storage device.
The other accessible slots support devices with 5 1/4-inch form factors
(frames).
With the 5 1/4-inch frame, you can install the following devices in the 5
1/4-inch slots:
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tape drive, CD-ROM drive, DVD-ROM drive
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PC card host
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Zip drive.
The accessible slots are not limited to devices with removable media. For
example, you can install a hard drive with a
5 1/4-inch frame in one of these slots.
A 5 1/4-inch slot can also accommodate a 3 1/2-inch device if the device
is housed in a 5 1/4-inch frame.
The following figure shows the device slot locations.