Installing And Removing Drives In The System Unit - DEC DECstation 5000 Model 100 Series Hardware Operator's Manual

Installing and Removing Drives in the System Unit

You can install drives in three places in your workstation:
In the base of the system unit
In the front drive panel of the system unit
In expansion boxes that can be connected to the system
unit
To install hard disk drives in the base of the system unit,
turn to the section ''To Install a Drive in the System Unit'', on
page 5-28. Hard disk drives are drives in which the recording
media are disks fastened permanently inside the drive.
To install removable media drives in the front drive panel, turn
to the section ''To Install a Removable Media Drive Inside the
System Unit'', on page 5-42. Removable media drives are drives
where the recording media are disks and tapes that you can
remove and insert as you need them. Diskette drives and tape
drives are examples of removable media drives.
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