Dell PowerEdge 700 - Manual (Page 70)

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Installing Drives
Dell™ PowerEdge™ 700 Systems Installation and Troubleshooting Guide
Connecting Drives
Front-Panel Drive Inserts
Diskette Drive
5.25-Inch Drives
Hard Drives
Cabled SATA and SCSI Hard Drives
Hot-Plug SCSI Hard Drives
Installing a RAID Controller Card
Your system supports the following drives:
l Up to two externally accessible 5.25-inch drives (typically CD and tape backup drives). A CD drive is standard in the first external drive bay, and a tape
backup device can be installed in the second external drive bay.
l An externally accessible 3.5-inch diskette drive.
l Up to four 1-inch SATA or SCSI hard drives.
Connecting Drives
Interface Cables
Most interface connectors are keyed for correct insertion. Keying ensures that the pin-1 wire in the cable connects to pin 1 in the connectors on both ends.
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. Table 7 -1 shows the cable requirements for common
drive configurations.
Table 7-1. Drive Cable Configuration
DC Power Cables
Each drive must connect to a DC power cable from the system power supply. These power cables are used for the 3.5-inch diskette drive, 5.25-inch devices,
and hard drives.
NOTE: Installing SATA and SCSI hard drives in the same system is not supported.
Drives Required Cable Cable Connections
IDE CD, DVD, and CD-RW/DVD drives, and IDE and
SCSI tape drives (See Figure 7 -4 .)
40-pin IDE 2-drop cable or SCSI 1-
drop cable (terminated)
IDE drive and primary IDE connector on system board or the
SCSI tape device and the SCSI controller card
Up to two cabled SATA hard drives (See Figure 7 -
7 .)
7-pin SATA hard-drive cable (one
cable per drive)
SATA hard drives and SATA port connectors on the system
board
Three or four cabled SATA hard drives (See
Figure 7 -8 .)
One SATA hard-drive cable assembly
for up to four drives
SATA hard drives and SATA RAID controller card (when
available)
Up to four hot-plug SCSI hard drives (See
Figure 7 -10 .)
38-cm (15-inch) 68-pin SCSI 1-drop
cable (unterminated)
SCSI backplane and the SCSI or RAID controller card
Up to four cabled (non-hot-plug) SCSI hard-drives
(See Figure 7 -9 .)
94-cm (37-inch) SCSI 4-drop cable
(terminated)
SCSI hard drives and SCSI RAID controller or SCSI controller
card