Data Storage Devices; Device Support; Device Slots; Device Preparation - NEC POWERMATE PROFESSIONAL - SERVICE MANUAL 05-1997 Service Manual

3-16 Option Installation

Data Storage Devices

The following sections provides information about installing storage devices in the system.
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Device Support

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Device Slots

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Device Preparation

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Device Cables

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Storage Device Installation
Device Support
The system board in the computer supports the following peripheral storage devices:
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up to two diskette drives, including the standard 1.44-MB diskette drive
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a 16-speed IDE CD-ROM reader
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one or two internal IDE drives (two SCSI drives in SCSI configurations)
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one or two external IDE devices (fifteen SCSI devices in SCSI configurations).
In the SCSI configuration, the SCSI adapter board supports up to fifteen SCSI devices.
Other storage devices might require the installation of a compatible controller board.
Device Slots
The system has six storage device slots (see Figure 3-11):
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a 3 1/2-inch accessible device slot which contains the standard 1.44-MB diskette
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three 5 1/4-inch accessible device slots (1.6-inch high, half-height)
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two 3 1/2-inch internal hard disk drive slots (1-inch high, thin-height).
All configurations come with a CD-ROM Reader and IDE hard disk (or SCSI hard disk in
SCSI configurations) installed.