Installing A Drive - IBM ThinkCentre A30 8198 User Manual

v A 3.5-inch diskette disk drive in bay 3
v A 3.5-inch hard drive in bay 4
Any bay that does not have a drive installed has a static shield and bay panel
installed.
The following illustration shows the locations of the drive bays.
The following table describes some of the drives you can install in each bay and
their height requirements.
Notes:
1. Drives that are greater than 43.0 mm (1.7 in.) high cannot be installed.
2. Install removable media (tape or CD) drives in the accessible bays (bay 1 or 2).

Installing a drive

To install an internal drive, follow these steps:
1. Remove the cover. See "Removing the cover" on page 54.
2. If your computer has a CD drive or DVD drive, you might need to remove the
3. Remove the bay panel from the drive bay by inserting a flat-blade screwdriver
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1 Bay 1 - Maximum height: 43.0 mm (1.7 in.)
2 Bay 2 - Maximum height: 43.0 mm (1.7 in.)
3 Bay 3 - Maximum height: 25.8 mm (1.0 in.)
4 Bay 4 - Maximum height: 25.8 mm (1.0 in.)
signal and power cables from the drive.
at the end and gently prying it loose.
CD drive or DVD drive (preinstalled in
some models)
5.25-inch hard disk drive
5.25-inch hard disk drive
3.5-inch hard disk drive (requires a
mounting bracket)
CD drive
DVD drive
3.5-inch diskette drive (preinstalled)
3.5-inch hard disk drive