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v Your server comes with one 3.5-inch, 1.44 MB diskette drive and one 48x IDE
v The empty bays below the diskette drive come without a device installed. You
v The xSeries 342 server supports only one diskette drive.
v If you are installing a device with a 50-pin connector in either of the 5.25-inch
v Your server supports three slim-high (1-inch) hot-swap hard disk drives in the
v The hot-swap bays connect to a SCSI backplane. This backplane is a printed
Note: The server EMI integrity and cooling are both protected by having the
SCSI drives
Some drives have a special design called small computer system interface, or SCSI.
This design allows you to attach multiple drives to a single SCSI channel.
Notes:
1. Any information about SCSI drives also applies to other SCSI devices, such as
2. If you plan to install both internal and external SCSI devices, you must follow
A 16-bit (wide) SCSI cable connects the SCSI hard-disk drive backplane to an
integrated SCSI controller on the system board. An additional 16-bit 1-drop SCSI
cable is shipped inside your server. It is folded and restrained with a cable clamp
on the bottom of the server chassis near the empty bays. You can use this cable to
connect an optional SCSI device installed in one of the empty 5.25-inch bays to the
SCSI channel A connector on the system board.
SCSI IDs
Each SCSI device that is connected to an individual channel of a SCSI controller
needs a unique identification (ID) so that the controller can identify the devices
and ensure that different devices do not attempt to transfer data at the same time.
If you need to set IDs for SCSI devices, refer to the instructions that come with
those devices.
Your server automatically sets SCSI IDs for hot-swap hard disk drives.
The SCSI ID assigned to each hot-swap bay is shown on your server beside the
bay. The server uses the hard disk drive SCSI IDs to send status information to the
indicator lights above each hot-swap bay.
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CD-ROM drive.
can use these bays for 5.25-inch, half-high, removable-media drives, such as tape
backup drives. You also can combine these bays into a single, full-high bay and
install a digital linear tape (DLT) drive; or, you can install an xSeries Media Bay
Ultra 160 Hot Swap Conversion Kit option, which converts these bays to three
hot-swap drive bays.
bays, you need a 68-pin to 50-pin converter (option number 32G3925).
hot-swap bays. If your server has the xSeries Media Bay Ultra 160 Hot Swap
Conversion Kit option installed, it supports three additional hot-swap hard disk
drives.
circuit board behind the bay.
5.25-inch bays covered or occupied. When you install a drive, save the filler
panel from the bay, in case you later remove the drive and do not replace it
with another.
tape drives.
the instructions in "Connecting external options" on page 63, in addition to the
instructions in this section.
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