Installing Drives; Connecting Drives; Interface Cables; Dc Power Cables - Dell PowerEdge 1600SC Systems Istallation And Troubleshooting Manual

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Installing Drives

Dell™ PowerEdge™ 1600SC Systems Installation and Troubleshooting Guide
Connecting Drives
IDE Configuration Information
SCSI Configuration Information
Configuring the Boot Drive
Diskette Drive
Your system can contain the following drives:
Up to two externally accessible 5.25-inch drives (typically CD drives or tape drives). A CD or other optical drive is standard in the first external drive bay,
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and an additional drive of your choice can be installed in the remaining external drive bay.
An externally accessible 3.5-inch diskette drive.
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Up to four 1-inch non-hot-plug IDE or SCSI hard drives.
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Up to six hot-plug SCSI hard drives.
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Connecting Drives

Interface Cables

Most interface connectors are keyed for correct insertion. When you disconnect an interface cable, take care to grasp the cable connector, rather than the
cable itself, to avoid stress on the cable.
Drive Cable Configurations
Your system can accommodate many different drive configurations, each with specific cable requirements.
drive configurations.
Table 7-1. Drive Cable Configuration
Drives
IDE CD drive, DVD drive, or combination drive
(See Figure 7-4.)
Up to two IDE hard drives (See Figure 7-8.)
Three or four IDE hard drives (See
11.)
Up to four non-hot-plug SCSI hard-drives
(See Figure 7-9 and Figure 7-10.)
Up to six hot-plug SCSI hard drives (See
Figure 7-12 and Figure 7-13.)
SCSI tape drive (See Figure 7-5
Figure 7-6.)
NOTE: For the full name of an abbreviation or acronym used in this table, see

DC Power Cables

Front-Panel Drive Inserts
5.25-Inch Drives
Hard Drives
Installing a RAID Controller Card
Required Cable
40-pin IDE 2-drop cable
80-pin IDE 2-drop cable
Figure 7- 80-pin IDE bundled 4-drop cable
66-cm (26-inch) or 94-cm (37-inch) 68-pin SCSI
4-drop cable (terminated)
38-cm (15-inch) or 63-cm (25-inch) 68-pin SCSI
1-drop cable (unterminated)
and 68-pin SCSI 1-drop cable (terminated)
Table 7-1
Cable Connections
IDE drive and secondary IDE connector on system board
IDE hard drives and primary IDE connector on system board
IDE hard drives and IDE RAID controller card
660-cm (26-inch) cable to SCSI hard drives and SCSI
controller on system board (See Figure 7-9.)
or
94-cm (37-inch) cable to SCSI hard drives and SCSI RAID
controller (See Figure 7-10.)
38-cm (15-inch) cable to SCSI backplane and SCSI
connector on system board (See Figure 7-12.)
or
63-cm (25-inch) cable to SCSI backplane and RAID controller
card (See Figure 7-13.)
SCSI tape drive and SCSI controller on system board (See
Figure 7-5.)
or
SCSI tape drive and SCSI controller card if SCSI controller is
used for SCSI hard drives (See Figure 7-6.)
"Abbreviations and Acronyms."
shows the cable requirements for common