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Figure 7 – Dell PowerEdge 700 User Manual

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If you are installing up to four SATA hard drives:

a.

 

Install a SATA RAID controller card in a 64-bit/66-MHz expansion slot. See

Figure A

-3

to identify the expansion slots.

b.

 

Connect the SATA cable assembly to port 0 through port 3 on the SATA RAID controller card and to drive 0 through drive 3, respectively. See

Figure 7

-8

.

Figure 7-8. Connecting Four Drives to a SATA RAID Controller Card

 

 

If you are installing a cabled SCSI drive, connect the SCSI interface cable to the hard drives and to the SCSI controller card. See

Figure 7

-9

.

Figure 7-9. Cabling Four SCSI Hard Drives to the SCSI Controller Card

 

NOTE:

The integrated drive controller on the system board can support only two SATA hard drives. If you are installing three or four SATA hard

drives, you must connect the drives to a SATA RAID controller card in a RAID or non-RAID configuration.

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