Storage Devices: Dell Dimension� XPS 50/66 MDT (V4xxV)
Storage Devices: Dell Dimension XPS 50/66 MDT (V4xxV)
General Notes
on Drive Installation | Diskette
and Tape Drives | CD-ROM Drives
| Hard-Disk Drives
General
Notes on Drive Installation
Terminators | Jumpers and Switches | Partitioning
and Formatting Hard-Disk Drives
For non-SCSI devices, the general rule is that a terminator is
present on the drive connected to the first drive connector on
the end of the interface cable. Exceptions to this rule are
possible. Always refer to the documentation for the drive you are
installing. Some possible exceptions are:
- Some drives have permanently installed terminators, which
are disabled by means of jumpers.
- Some drives have terminators that are never removed or
disabled.
- SCSI devices have their own
strict termination rules.
Drives may have jumpers or switches that must be set to
reflect your configuration. Refer to the documentation for the
drive you are installing. General guidelines for configuration
jumpers/switches are as follows:
- Some diskette drives have jumpers that configure them as
drive A or B.
- When daisy-chaining IDE drives, you will need to
configure one or both drives in order for the operating
system to differentiate between them.
- All SCSI devices must be
configured with a unique SCSI ID number.
Physical (low-level) formatting divides the disk into
concentric magnetic tracks, which in turn are divided into
storage segments called sectors. Physical formatting is rarely
required; drives are shipped already physically formatted.
If you have trouble with your hard-disk drive, run the
appropriate diagnostic tests. See your Diagnostics and
Troubleshooting Guide for instructions.
If physical formatting is required, refer to the documentation
that came with your SCSI adapter card.
IDE drives cannot be physically formatted.
Partitioning assigns the storage area to one
or more logical drives. For MS-DOS�, use fdisk.exe to
partition your drive. For OS/2� or the UNIX� operating system,
see the documentation that came with the operating system.
Logically formatting the drive sets aside
groups of sectors that store start-up information, directory
information, status information, and data. For MS-DOS, use format.exe
to format the drive. For OS/2 or the UNIX operating system, see
the documentation that came with the operating system.
Diskette and Tape
Drives
Drive Bay
Locations and Cable Connections
To install a diskette or tape drive, follow these steps:
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NOTE: If you are installing a tape
drive that came with its own adapter and interface cable,
do not use the system diskette/tape drive interface
cable. Instead, install the adapter and interface cable
supplied with the drive, referring to the instructions
provided with the drive. |
- Slide the drive into the selected drive bay. If
necessary, remove the front-panel insert covering the bay
you want to use.
- Attach the DC power cable and the diskette/tape
drive interface cable
- Update the System Setup program.
Set the Diskette Drive category to match
the diskette drive you are installing.
If you are installing a tape drive as the third drive,
you do not have to update the System Setup program.
If you are installing a tape drive as the second drive,
the Diskette Drive B category should be set to Not
Installed.
- Run the appropriate diagnostic tests. See your Diagnostics
and Troubleshooting Guide for instructions.
CD ROM Drives
To install a CD-ROM drive, follow these steps:
- Install a SCSI adapter (or the special CD-ROM controller
that came with your drive) in the computer.
If you are using a SCSI adapter, see the
section on SCSI
drives.
- Slide the drive into the selected drive
bay. If necessary, remove the front-panel
insert covering the bay you want to use.
- Attach the DC power cable and the SCSI or CD-ROM
interface cable.
- Run the appropriate diagnostic tests. See your Diagnostics
and Troubleshooting Guide for instructions.
Hard-Disk Drives
The hard-disk drive bracket
next to the power supply holds up to 2 half-height, 3.5-inch
drives.
IDE Drives
To install an IDE hard-disk drive, follow these steps:
- Install the drive in the drive bracket.
- Attach the DC power cable and the IDE cable.
- Update the System Setup program. At the Hard-Disk Drive 1
category, select Auto Config.
If you receive a drive error message when
you next boot the system, the automatic drive-type
detection feature may not work with your drive. Try
entering the drive-type information in the Hard-Disk
Drive 1 or Hard-Disk Drive 2 category.
- Run the appropriate diagnostic tests. See your Diagnostics
and Troubleshooting Guide for instructions.
To install a SCSI hard-disk drive, follow these steps:
- Install a SCSI adapter card in your computer.
- Set the SCSI ID number for the drive you are installing.
SCSI ID numbers range from 0 to 7. Each
device on the SCSI bus, including the controller, must
have its own unique ID number.
There are no requirements that SCSI ID numbers be
assigned sequentially or that devices be installed on the
SCSI cable in order of ID number.
A SCSI drive is usually assigned ID 0. If you plan to use
a SCSI drive as your boot device, it must be configured
as ID 0.
If you have an IDE hard-disk drive installed, it will
automatically be your boot device, regardless of the ID
number assigned to your SCSI drive(s).
- Install or remove the SCSI bus termination on the drive.
Each end of the SCSI bus must be
terminated. Thus, if you have only an adapter card and
one drive, each must have termination installed. If you
have an adapter card and two devices, the device in the
middle of the cable must have its bus termination
removed.
- Install the drive in the drive bracket.
- Attach the drive's interface connector to the SCSI cable.
- Update the system configuration information (in the
System Setup program).
If you have only SCSI hard-disk drive(s)
installed, the Hard-Disk Drive 1 and Hard-Disk Drive 2
categories must be set to Not Installed.
- Run the appropriate diagnostic tests. See your Diagnostics
and Troubleshooting Guide for instructions.
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