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Installing Drives
Dell™PowerEdge™700SystemsInstallationandTroubleshootingGuide
Connecting Drives
Front-Panel Drive Inserts
Diskette Drive
5.25-Inch Drives
Hard Drives
Cabled SATA and SCSI Hard Drives
Hot-Plug SCSI Hard Drives
Installing a RAID Controller Card
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Your system supports the following drives:
l Up to two externally accessible 5.25-inch drives (typically CD and tape backup drives). A CD drive is standard in the first external drive bay, and a tape
backup device can be installed in the second external drive bay.
l An externally accessible 3.5-inch diskette drive.
l Up to four 1-inch SATA or SCSI hard drives.
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Connecting Drives
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Interface Cables
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Most interface connectors are keyed for correct insertion. Keying ensures that the pin-1 wire in the cable connects to pin 1 in the connectors on both ends.
When you disconnect an interface cable, take care to grasp the cable connector, rather than the cable itself, to avoid stress on the cable.
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Drive Cable Configurations
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Your system can accommodate many different drive configurations, each with specific cable requirements. Table7-1 shows the cable requirements for common
drive configurations.
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Table 7-1.DriveCableConfiguration
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DC Power Cables
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Each drive must connect to a DC power cable from the system power supply. These power cables are used for the 3.5-inch diskette drive, 5.25-inch devices,
and hard drives.
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NOTE: Installing SATA and SCSI hard drives in the same system is not supported.
Drives
Required Cable
Cable Connections
IDE CD, DVD, and CD-RW/DVD drives, and IDE and
SCSI tape drives (See Figure7-4.)
40-pin IDE 2-drop cable or SCSI 1-
drop cable (terminated)
IDE drive and primary IDE connector on system board or the
SCSI tape device and the SCSI controller card
Up to two cabled SATA hard drives (See Figure7-
7.)
7-pin SATA hard-drive cable (one
cable per drive)
SATA hard drives and SATA port connectors on the system
board
Three or four cabled SATA hard drives (See
Figure7-8.)
One SATA hard-drive cable assembly
for up to four drives
SATA hard drives and SATA RAID controller card (when
available)
Up to four hot-plug SCSI hard drives (See
Figure7-10.)
38-cm (15-inch) 68-pin SCSI 1-drop
cable (unterminated)
SCSI backplane and the SCSI or RAID controller card
Up to four cabled (non-hot-plug) SCSI hard-drives
(See Figure7-9.)
94-cm (37-inch) SCSI 4-drop cable
(terminated)
SCSI hard drives and SCSI RAID controller or SCSI controller
card