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Disk drives and media, Remove all disk drives, Remove any disk drives – Dell PRECISION 530 User Manual

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Disk Drives and Media

• Installing a CD, zip, or other externally accessible drive
• Installing a hard drive
• EIDE device installation guidelines
• SCSI device installation guidelines

Your computer provides the following drive bays:

One 3.5-inch diskette drive.

Externally accessible drive bay: holds up to three 5.25-inch externally

accessible drives or up to two 5.25-inch externally accessible drives and

one 3.5-inch hard drive.

Hard drive bay: holds up to three 3.5-inch hard drives. The bay can

hold three 1-inch-high drives, two 1-inch-high drives and one 1.6-inch-

high drive, or two 1.6-inch-high drives.

NOTE:

Cable ends are color coded so that black identifies the diskette drive

cable, yellow the front I/O panel cable, orange the secondary EIDE cable,
white the LVD SCSI cable, and blue the primary EIDE cable.

See the following figure for examples of these drives.