General Installation Guidelines; Configuring The Boot Drive; Removing A Hard Drive - Dell PowerEdge 700 Installation And Troubleshooting Manual

15. Install the cover. See "Replacing the
16. Stand the system upright.
17. Install the bezel. See "Installing the
18. Reconnect the system to its electrical outlet and turn the system on, including any attached peripherals.
19. Test the drive.
If you installed an IDE device, run the IDE devices tests in the system diagnostics to determine whether the device operates properly. See
System Diagnostics."
If you installed a SCSI device, run the SCSI controllers test in the system diagnostics. See
If you installed a tape drive, see the tape drive software documentation to perform a backup and verification test.
Hard Drives
Your system can contain up to four 1-inch SATA or SCSI hard drives in a removable drive bay. These drives connect either to the system board or to an optional
controller card.

General Installation Guidelines

Use the following guidelines when installing hard drives:
You should only use drives that have been tested and approved by the system manufacturer.
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Do not install SATA and SCSI hard drives together in the same system.
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Do not install cabled and hot-plug SCSI hard drives together in the same system.
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You may need to use different programs than those provided with the operating system to partition and format a hard drive. See the hard drive's
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documentation for information on setting up the drive.
When you format a high-capacity hard drive, allow enough time for the formatting to be completed. Long format times for these drives are normal. For
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example, a large drive can take over an hour to format.
Do not turn off or reboot your system while the drive is being formatted. Doing so can cause a drive failure.
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NOTE: The hard-drive activity indicator operates only when SATA hard drives are connected directly to the SATA port connectors on the system board.
The indicator does not operate with SCSI drives or drives that are attached to a controller card. To identify the indicator, see Figure 2-1.

Configuring the Boot Drive

The drive or device from which the system boots is determined by the boot order specified in the System Setup program (see "Using the System Setup
Program" in your User's Guide). To boot the system from a hard drive or drive array, the drive(s) must be connected to the appropriate controller:
To boot from a single SATA hard drive, the master drive (drive 0) must be connected to the SATA_PORT0 connector on the system board. To identify
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system board connectors, see Figure A-3.
To boot from a single SCSI hard drive, the drive must be connected to the SCSI or RAID controller card. See the documentation that accompanied the
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controller card.
To boot from a SATA RAID (when available) or SCSI RAID array, the drive must be connected to the RAID controller card. See the documentation that
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accompanied the controller card.
Cabled SATA and SCSI Hard Drives

Removing a Hard Drive

Cover" in "Troubleshooting Your System."
Bezel" in "Troubleshooting Your System."
"Running System Diagnostics."
"Running the