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Preparing to replace or add a drive

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Preparing to replace or add a drive

One 3.5-inch diskette drive, one 3.5-inch hard drive, and one CD-ROM drive
are included with your computer. You can add additional drives of the
following types:

Half-height 3.5-inch diskette drives - The floppy controller supports
up to two diskette drives, one of which is the 3.5-inch diskette drive
that comes with your computer.

Half-height 3.5-inch hard drives - The system board has two IDE
connectors that support up to two drives each, for a total of four
IDE drives. To use another type of hard drive, such as a SCSI drive,
an add-in card must be installed.

Half-height 3.5-inch tape storage or disk storage devices.

Half-height 5.25-inch devices.

Middle 3.5-inch
drive cage

Bottom 3.5-inch
hard drive cage

5.25-inch drive cage

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