Hardware Installation - Castlewood EIDE ORB 2.2 GB Owner's Manual

1.6 HARDWARE INSTALLATION

Locate an unused drive bay
You should see one or more plastic or metal plates on the face of your
computer near the floppy, CD-ROM or DVD drives. These are the unused
drive bays. The ORB drive mounts in a 3½- inch drive bay. If you only have
a 5¼-inch drive bay, follow steps 1 and 2 below.
Empty 5¼ - inch bay
Empty 3½ - inch bay
Mounting the Drive Into a 5¼-inch Adapter
Note: The remainder of this section provides instructions for mounting your
ORB drive into a 5¼-inch bay adapter.
1. Slide the drive into the adapter.
If installing the ORB drive into a 5¼-inch bay with an adapter be sure
to use the screws provided with your adapter. The machine screws are
used to mount the drive in the adapter bracket.
Flat-ended machine screws
CAUTION: Be careful doing this to avoid damage to the drive.
Figure 4
ORB drive insertion
into 5¼ - inch adapter
2. Line the holes of the drive up with the holes of the adapter and
insert two screws into each side or the bottom of the drive.
Figure 5
Mounting ORB drive
into 5¼ - inch adapter
CAUTION: Mounting screw lengths have been chosen so
that no more than
mounting hole of the drive. The torque applied to the mounting
screws should be between 4 and 6 inch-pounds.
Figure 3
Tower with open 5¼ and 3½ - inch drive bays
Pointed-ended tapping screws
-inch of the screw enters the frame
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