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Any combination of DVD-ROM and DVD-RAM drives of the following devices can be installed
in the two slim-line bays:
DVD-RAM drive, FC 1993
DVD-ROM drive, FC 1994
A logical partition running a supported release of Linux requires a DVD-ROM drive or
DVD-RAM drive to provide a way to run the diag command of the CD for hardware
diagnostics from the CD. Concurrent diagnostics, as provided by the AIX 5L operating
system, is not available on the Linux operating system at the time of writing.
Supplementary devices can be installed in the half-height media bay, such as:
Internal 4 mm 36/72 GB LVD tape drive, FC 1991
IBM 80/160 GB internal tape drive VXA, FC 1992
IBM 160/320 GB internal tape drive with VXA-3 technology, FC 1892
IBM 200/400 GB LTO2 tape drive, FC 1997
Devices installed in the media bays must be assigned as a group to a single LPAR on a
partitioned system.
1.3.5 USB diskette drive
The externally attached USB diskette drive provides storage capacity up to 1.44 MB
(FC 2591) on high-density (2HD) floppy disks and 720 KB on a double density floppy disk. It
includes a 350 mm (13.7 in.) cable with standard USB connector. This super-slim-line and
lightweight USB V2-attached diskette drive takes its power requirements from the USB port.
The drive can be attached to the integrated USB ports, or to a USB adapter (FC 2738). A
maximum of one USB diskette drive is supported per integrated controller/adapter. The same
controller can share a USB mouse and keyboard.
1.3.6 I/O drawers
The p5-550 and p5-550Q have five internal PCI-X slots, where three of them are long slots
and two are short slots, and one of the long slots is PCI-X 2.0 266 MHz. If more PCI-X slots
are needed, especially well-suited to extend the number of LPARs and partitions, up to eight
7311 Model D20 drawers can be added. Four 7311 Model D20 drawers can be connected to
the RIO-2 Expansion card (FC 1806) that plugs to the system planar on the rear of the
system. An additional four 7311 Model D20 drawers can be connected to a second RIO-2
Expansion card, which requires a second processor card to be present. When one FC 1806 is
configured, you cannot use the system PCI-X slot 4. When two FC 1806 are configured, you
cannot use the system PCI-X slots 4 and 5.
7311 Model D20 I/O drawer
PCI-X and PCI cards are inserted from the top of the I/O drawer down into the slot. The
installed adapters are protected by plastic separators, designed to prevent grounding and
damage when adding or removing adapters.
Description
73.4 GB ULTRA320 15 K rpm SCSI hot-swappable disk drive
146.8 GB ULTRA320 15 K rpm SCSI hot-swappable disk drive
300 GB ULTRA320 10 K rpm SCSI hot-swappable disk drive
Chapter 1. General description
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