Installing An Internal Tape Drive Or Cd-Rom Drive That Uses A Controller Card - Dell Precision 400 User Manual
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8.
If the 3.5-inch front-panel insert is still present in
the computer cover, remove it as described in
"Removing and Replacing Front-Panel Inserts"
found earlier in this chapter.
9.
Perform steps 10 through 13 of the previous pro-
cedure, "Installing a Drive That Uses a Built-In
Drive Interface in a 5.25-Inch Drive Bay."
Installing an Internal Tape Drive or
CD-ROM Drive That Uses a Controller
Card
For internal CD-ROM drives and tape drives that come
with their own controller card and interface cable, use the
following installation procedure.
NOTE: For SCSI devices, see "Installing SCSI Devices"
found later in this chapter.
1.
Configure the controller card if necessary.
Refer to the documentation accompanying the drive
and the card. If the card incorporates jumpers or
switches that must be set to work with your system,
verify or change the settings as necessary.
2.
Perform steps 1 through 5 of "Installing a Drive
That Uses a Built-In Drive Interface in a
5.25-Inch Drive Bay" found earlier in this section.
3.
Install the controller card in an expansion slot.
See "Installing an Expansion Card" in Chapter 8.
Try to avoid installing the controller card below any
expansion cards that take up the full height of the
slot.
CAUTION: Dell does not recommend routing
cables over full-height cards because the cables
can restrict airflow, cause cooling problems,
and interfere with removing and replacing the
computer cover. If you must route cables over
full-height cards, be sure to use extra caution
thereafter when removing and replacing the
computer cover.
4.
Connect a DC power cable to the drive (see Fig-
ure 9-5).
Plug the DC power cable into the 4-pin power input
connector on the back of the drive.
5.
Attach the interface cable that came with your
drive kit to the card-edge connector on the back
of the drive.
CAUTION: Check the cable orientation—
match the colored strip to the pin-1 end of the
connector.
6.
Connect the other end of the interface cable to the
controller connector on the card.
Refer to the documentation that came with the drive
to identify the controller connector on the card.
CAUTION: Check the cable orientation—
match the colored strip to the pin-1 end of the
connector.
7.
Check all cable connections that may have been
loosened during this procedure. Arrange cables
so that they will not catch on the computer cover
or block the airflow of the fan or cooling vents.
8.
Replace the computer cover. Then reconnect your
computer and peripherals to their power sources,
and turn them on.
9.
If you installed a tape drive, perform a tape
backup and verification test with the drive as
instructed in the tape-drive software documenta-
tion that came with your drive.
NOTE: You do not need to update the system config-
uration information for a tape drive or CD-ROM
drive attached to its own dedicated controller card.
10. If you installed a CD-ROM drive, see the
documentation that came with the drive for
instructions on loading device drivers and using
the drive.
Installing Drives
9-7
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