IBM IntelliStation E Pro 6836, User Manual

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Internal drive bays
Your IntelliStation E Pro comes with an IDE CD-ROM drive installed in bay 1, a
3.5-in., 1.44 MB diskette drive installed in bay 3, and a hard disk drive installed in
bay 5 in some models.
Note: The illustrations in this document might differ slightly from your hardware.
Bay 1
Bay 2
Bay 3
Bay 4
Bay 5
Bay 6
Bay 7
Notes:
1. Diskette drives, tape drives, and CD-ROM drives are removable media drives.
You can install removable-media drives in bays 1, 2, 3, and 4.
2. You can install a 3.5-in, slim-high or a 5.25-in., half-high, removable-media
drive, such as a tape backup drive, in bay 2.
3.
You can only install a 3.5-in., slim-high, removable-media drive in bay 4.
4. The IntelliStation E Pro computer supports only one diskette drive, which uses
1 MB and 2 MB diskettes.
5.
Before you install a 3.5-in. drive in a 5.25-in. bay, you must attach the 5.25 in.
conversion kit, supplied with your option, to the 3.5-in. drive. Refer to the
documentation that comes with the option for the conversion kit installation
instructions.
Note: Only 3.5-in. options that ship with proper mounting hardware can be
supported in the 5.25-in. bays.
6.
If you have a tape backup drive in your computer, use a dry process cleaning
cartridge to clean the tape head two hours after you first use a new data
cartridge. Then, clean the tape head once a month, or after each eight hours of
continuous read/write operations, whichever occurs first. For complete details
about the tape backup drive, refer to the documentation that comes with your
computer or your backup option.
Chapter 5. Installing options
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