Disk Drives And Media - Dell Precision 530 Service Manual

Disk Drives and Media

• Installing a CD, zip, or other externally accessible drive
• Installing a hard drive
• EIDE device installation guidelines
• SCSI device installation guidelines
Your computer provides the following drive bays:
• One 3.5-inch diskette drive.
• Externally accessible drive bay: holds up to three 5.25-inch externally
accessible drives or up to two 5.25-inch externally accessible drives and
one 3.5-inch hard drive.
• Hard drive bay: holds up to three 3.5-inch hard drives. The bay can
hold three 1-inch-high drives, two 1-inch-high drives and one 1.6-inch-
high drive, or two 1.6-inch-high drives.
NOTE: Cable ends are color coded so that black identifies the diskette drive
cable, yellow the front I/O panel cable, orange the secondary EIDE cable,
white the LVD SCSI cable, and blue the primary EIDE cable.
See the following figure for examples of these drives.
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