Dell PowerEdge SC1420 - Manual (Page 57)

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Installing Drives
Dell™ PowerEdge™ SC1420 Systems Installation and Troubleshooting Guide
General Installation Guidelines
Front-Panel Inserts
Hard Drives
Installing a SATA or SCSI Controller Card
Diskette Drive (Optional)
5.25-Inch Optical and Tape Drives
The drive bays in your system provide space for up to four SATA or SCSI hard drives, two 5.25-inch optical drives, and an optional diskette drive. See Figure 7 -
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Figure 7-1. Drive Locations Inside the System
General Installation Guidelines
IDE Drive Installation Guidelines
When you connect two IDE devices to a single IDE interface cable and configure them for the Cable Select setting, the device attached to the last connector on
the interface cable is the primary (master) or boot device (drive 0), and the device attached to the middle connector on the interface cable is the secondary
(slave) device (drive 1). See the drive documentation in your upgrade kit for information on configuring drives for the Cable Select setting.
Because Cable Select is the default setting, you do not need to set any additional drives as a primary or secondary drive.
SCSI Installation Guidelines
Although SCSI drives are installed in essentially the same way as other drives, their configuration requirements are different. To install and configure a SCSI