Installing Internal Drives - IBM IntelliStation A Pro Type 6217 User Manual

Installing internal drives

The following notes describe the types of drives that your computer supports and
other information that you must consider when installing internal drives.
v Your IntelliStation A Pro computer comes with an IDE optical drive (CD-ROM,
v You can install removable-media drives in bays 1, 2, and 3 only. Tape drives,
v You can install a 3.5-in. slim-high or 5.25-in. half-high removable-media drive,
v You can install an IDE diskette drive or a 3.5-in slim-high hard disk drive in bay
v To install a 3.5-in. drive in a 5.25-in. bay, you must use the 5.25-in. conversion
v The IntelliStation A Pro computer supports only one diskette drive: either an IDE
v If you plan to install a Microsoft Windows XP 32-bit operating system on a SCSI
v Two Serial ATA hard disk drive connectors are on the system board.
v When SCSI drives are installed, set the drive jumpers either to disable auto-start
v If you have SCSI hard disk drives and SATA hard disk drives in the same
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CD-RW, DVD-ROM, DVD/CD-RW combo, or DVD-RAM Multiburner Plus drive) in
bay 1 and a hard disk drive in bay 4.
diskette drives, CD-ROM, DVD/CD-RW, DVD-ROM, DVD/CD-RW combo, or
DVD-RAM Multiburner Plus drives are examples of removable-media drives.
such as a tape backup drive, in bay 2.
3.
kit.
diskette drive in bay 3 or a USB drive connected to the USB connector on the
front of the computer.
drive, you must have a diskette drive attached during installation to be able to
load the SCSI driver.
or to delay startup, to prevent overtaxing the system power supply by all drives
trying to spin up at once.
computer, note the following HostRAID considerations for hard disk drives:
– You can enable HostRAID on only one subsystem (SCSI or SATA)
– If HostRAID is enabled on a subsystem, you can install boot hard disk drives
on that subsystem only.
If you fail to observe these restrictions, the computer will usually disable the
BIOS for the last subsystem loaded, which typically is SCSI.
Bay 1
Bay 2
Bay 3
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Bay 6
Bay 5
Bay 4