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Drive Installation Guidelines

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Removable Media Storage A 1.44-MB diskette drive comes standard in removable media drive bay 7 and a CD-ROM Drive is installed in bay 5. Two half-height removable storage devices such as diskette, tape, or hard drives can be installed in bays 4, and 6. Drive Installation Guidelines The following guidelines should be noted when adding or replacing SCSI hard drives: o A maximum of seven SCSI-2 devices may be added per controller. o The SCSI ID for each device should be the same as the bay number (Bay 0 = SCSI ID 0). o If only one SCSI hard drive is used it should be installed in bay 0. o Compaq SCSI cables for the Compaq ProSignia 500 are terminated, be sure to remove all terminating jumpers from 3rd party SCSI devices. NOTE: Supported Compaq SCSI options are not terminated. The following guidelines apply when adding a SMART Controller and SCSI arrayed hard drives:

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Removable Media Storage
A 1.44-MB diskette drive comes standard in removable media drive bay 7 and
a CD-ROM Drive is installed in bay 5. Two half-height removable storage
devices such as diskette, tape, or hard drives can be installed in bays 4,
and 6.
Drive Installation Guidelines
The following guidelines should be noted when adding or replacing SCSI hard
drives:
o A maximum of seven SCSI-2 devices may be added per controller.
o The SCSI ID for each device should be the same as the bay number
(Bay 0 = SCSI ID 0).
o If only one SCSI hard drive is used it should be installed in bay 0.
o Compaq SCSI cables for the Compaq ProSignia 500 are terminated, be sure
to remove all terminating jumpers from 3rd party SCSI devices.
NOTE: Supported Compaq SCSI options are not terminated.
The following guidelines apply when adding a SMART Controller and SCSI
arrayed hard drives: