Technical Information 1-4
MINITOWER SYSTEM CHASSIS
The minitower chassis provides an enclosure for the system board, power supply, five
useable expansion slots, a six-connector PCI/ISA backboard, and six storage device slots.
The expansion slots include two 8-/16-bit ISA slots, one shared PCI/ISA slot, and two
32-bit PCI slots.
The six storage device slots accommodate up to four accessible devices and two internal
hard disk drive devices. The accessible devices include the standard one-inch high
3 1/2-inch 1.44-MB diskette drive and up to three 1.6-inch high 5 1/4-inch storage devices.
The non-multimedia hard disk systems ship with an accessible 3 1/2-inch diskette drive and
an internal 3 1/2-inch hard disk drive, leaving three accessible 5 1/4-inch storage device
slots and one internal slot available for an optional hard disk. The multimedia systems ship
with an accessible 3 1/2-inch diskette drive, an internal 3 1/2-inch hard disk drive, and an
accessible 5 1/4-inch CD-ROM reader, leaving two accessible 5 1/4-inch storage device
slots and one internal slot available for an optional hard disk.
Figure 1-2 shows the front panel features and the locations of the accessible storage devices
in a minitower system. Multimedia systems come with a CD-ROM reader installed in the
top accessible device slot.
Figure 1-2 Minitower System Controls and Storage Device Slots
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