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Installing Additional Drives When installing additional drives, follow these guidelines: ● The primary Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive must be connected to the dark blue primary SATA connector on the system board labeled SATA0. ● Connect the SATA optical drive to the red SATA connector on the system board labeled SATA4. ● Connect a diskette drive to the connector labeled FLOPPY. ● Connect a media card reader to the USB connector labeled F_USB2. ● The system does not support Parallel ATA (PATA) optical drives or PATA hard drives. ● You may install either a third-height or a half-height drive into a half-height bay. ● If needed, HP has provided extra drive retainer screws on the front of the chassis under the hard drive cage. Hard drives use 6-32 standard screws. All other drives use M3 metric screws. The HPsupplied M3 metric guide screws (1) are black. The HP-supplied 6-32 standard screws (2) are silver. Figure 8-5 Extra Drive Retainer Screws Location 98 Chapter 8 Removal and Replacement Procedures Small Form Factor (SFF) Chassis

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Installing Additional Drives
When installing additional drives, follow these guidelines:
●
The primary Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive must be connected to the dark blue primary SATA
connector on the system board labeled SATA0.
●
Connect the SATA optical drive to the red SATA connector on the system board labeled SATA4.
●
Connect a diskette drive to the connector labeled FLOPPY.
●
Connect a media card reader to the USB connector labeled F_USB2.
●
The system does not support Parallel ATA (PATA) optical drives or PATA hard drives.
●
You may install either a third-height or a half-height drive into a half-height bay.
●
If needed, HP has provided extra drive retainer screws on the front of the chassis under the hard
drive cage. Hard drives use 6-32 standard screws. All other drives use M3 metric screws. The HP-
supplied M3 metric guide screws
(1)
are black. The HP-supplied 6-32 standard screws
(2)
are
silver.
Figure 8-5
Extra Drive Retainer Screws Location
98
Chapter 8
Removal and Replacement Procedures Small Form Factor (SFF) Chassis