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Installing Drives
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DC Power Cables
The 3.5-inch diskette drive, 5.25-inch devices, and SATA hard drives must connect to a DC power
cable from the system power supply. (Hot–plug-ready SCSI drives obtain their power from the
optional SCSI backplane.)
Table 7-1. Drive Cable Configuration
Drives Required Cable Cable Connections
IDE CD drive, data-only
DVD drive, or combination
drive. See Figure 7-5. 40-pin IDE 1-drop cable IDE drive and IDE connector on system
board
Up to two non–hot-plug
SATA hard drives. See
Figure 7-9. 7-pin SATA bundled 2-drop
cable SATA hard drives and SATA controllers on
system board
Up to six non–hot-plug
SATA hard drives. See
Figure 7-10. 7-pin SATA bundled 6-drop
cable SATA hard drives and SATA controller card
Up to six hot–plug-ready
SCSI hard drives. See
Figure 7-11 and
Figure 7-12.
NOTE:
SCSI hot-plug
functionality is available only
when SCSI RAID is used.
See the SCSI RAID
controller's documentation
to verify that its
configuration supports hot-
plug SCSI hard drives.
38-cm (15-inch) or 63-cm
(25-inch) 68-pin SCSI
1-drop cable
(unterminated) 38-cm (15-inch) cable to SCSI backplane
and SCSI connector on system board. See
Figure 7-11.
or
63-cm (25-inch) cable to SCSI backplane
and RAID controller card. See Figure 7-12.
SCSI half-height tape drive.
See Figure 7-6 and
Figure 7-7. 68-pin SCSI 1-drop cable
(terminated) SCSI tape drive and SCSI controller on
system board. See Figure 7-6.
or
SCSI tape drive and SCSI controller card
if SCSI controller is used for SCSI hard
drives. See Figure 7-7.
NOTE:
For the full name of an abbreviation or acronym used in this table, see the "Glossary" in the User’s
Guide.