
TX300 S3
Options Guide
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8
Accessible drives
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CAUTION!
Observe the safety instructions in the
chapter “Safety notes” on
page 11
ff.
Three free 5.25-inch bays are available for accessible drives.
In the third 5.25-inch bay a DVD-ROM drive or a multibay (FDD-DVD-LocalView
box) can be installed. The multibay can be equipped with a slimline floppy disk
drive, a slimline CD/DVD drive and a LocalView module.
In the second and the third 5.25-inch bay a SAS/SATA HDD extension box can
be installed. This SAS/SATA HDD extension box can be equipped with a slimline
floppy disk drive (or a LocalView module), a slimline CD/DVD drive and two
SAS/SATA hard disks.
8.1
Installing an accessible 5.25-inch drive
The 5.25-inch drives available are magnetic tape drives and DVD-ROM burners.
These drives can be installed in the free 5.25-inch bays.
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Open the server and remove the front cover or rack front cover as described
in the
chapter “Preparation” on page 17
ff.
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New 5.25-inch drives are supplied without EasyClick rails. Before
installing a new 5.25-inch drive you must therefore remove the EasyClick
rails from the dummy cover and mount the EasyClick rails on the new
5.25-inch drive.
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If you install a magnetic tape drive with double height (3.2-inch), two
dummy covers of the free 5.25-inch bays must be removed.