Hard Drive Installation Guidelines - HP c8000 Technical Reference Manual

Hard Drive Installation Guidelines

The system supports either IDE or SCSI hard drives, but not both in the same system.
IDE Drives
The HP workstation c8000 supports up to two IDE hard drives, attached to the primary IDE
cable.
NOTE: For additional information on configuring IDE drives, see Appendix A, "Ultra ATA /
IDE Guidelines."
The system has two IDE cables — one for connecting hard drives, and the other for
connecting optical drives. Locate the IDE cable connected to the primary IDE connector
on the system board 1 and attach the cable 2 to the hard drive.
The black connector on each cable is for the master device 3; the gray connector is for
the slave device 4. Make sure the jumper on the hard drive is set to cable select (CSEL),
not to master (M) or slave (S). See the documentation provided with your drive for help
locating the jumper.
Install the first drive in the top bay 3. Install the second drive in the bay above the
bottom bay 4.
IDE hard drive locations
NOTE: The Disk Activity LED automatically communicates with IDE and SCSI drives
connected to the built-in controllers.
To get this functionality with an SCSI or IDE controller card, connect the card with an LED
activity cable to the hard drive activity LED connector on the system board.
Refer to "System Board Components and Connectors" on page 3-4 for a picture showing where
on the system board to connect the LED activity cable (item 36).
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