Installing Drives - Dell PowerEdge 700 Installation And Troubleshooting Manual

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Installing Drives

Dell™ PowerEdge™ 700 Systems Installation and Troubleshooting Guide
Connecting Drives
Front-Panel Drive Inserts
Diskette Drive
5.25-Inch Drives
Hard Drives
Cabled SATA and SCSI Hard Drives
Hot-Plug SCSI Hard Drives
Installing a RAID Controller Card
Your system supports the following drives:
Up to two externally accessible 5.25-inch drives (typically CD and tape backup drives). A CD drive is standard in the first external drive bay, and a tape
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backup device can be installed in the second external drive bay.
An externally accessible 3.5-inch diskette drive.
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Up to four 1-inch SATA or SCSI hard drives.
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Connecting Drives
Interface Cables
Most interface connectors are keyed for correct insertion. Keying ensures that the pin-1 wire in the cable connects to pin 1 in the connectors on both ends.
When you disconnect an interface cable, take care to grasp the cable connector, rather than the cable itself, to avoid stress on the cable.
Drive Cable Configurations
Your system can accommodate many different drive configurations, each with specific cable requirements.
drive configurations.
NOTE: Installing SATA and SCSI hard drives in the same system is not supported.
Table 7-1. Drive Cable Configuration
Drives
IDE CD, DVD, and CD-RW/DVD drives, and IDE and
SCSI tape drives (See Figure 7-4.)
Up to two cabled SATA hard drives (See
7.)
Three or four cabled SATA hard drives (See
Figure 7-8.)
Up to four hot-plug SCSI hard drives (See
Figure 7-10.)
Up to four cabled (non-hot-plug) SCSI hard-drives
(See Figure 7-9.)
DC Power Cables
Each drive must connect to a DC power cable from the system power supply. These power cables are used for the 3.5-inch diskette drive, 5.25-inch devices,
and hard drives.
Required Cable
40-pin IDE 2-drop cable or SCSI 1-
drop cable (terminated)
Figure 7- 7-pin SATA hard-drive cable (one
cable per drive)
One SATA hard-drive cable assembly
for up to four drives
38-cm (15-inch) 68-pin SCSI 1-drop
cable (unterminated)
94-cm (37-inch) SCSI 4-drop cable
(terminated)
shows the cable requirements for common
Table 7-1
Cable Connections
IDE drive and primary IDE connector on system board or the
SCSI tape device and the SCSI controller card
SATA hard drives and SATA port connectors on the system
board
SATA hard drives and SATA RAID controller card (when
available)
SCSI backplane and the SCSI or RAID controller card
SCSI hard drives and SCSI RAID controller or SCSI controller
card