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Features
Peripheral Bays
The system supports a variety of single-ended standard
PC AT-compatible peripheral devices. The chassis
includes these peripheral bays:
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A 3.5-inch front panel bay for a 3.5" diskette drive
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5.25-inch front panel bays for mounting 3 half-
height 5.25-inch peripheral devices: diskette drive,
tape drive, or CD ROM drive (not a hard disk drive)
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Internal disk drive bays for mounting four SCSI
hard disk drives (1" to 1.63" high hard disk drives
only).
CD-ROM Drive
The system includes a 5.25" IDE CD-ROM drive
installed in the top slot of the front panel bays.
Diskette Drive
The system includes a 3.5" diskette drive installed in a
front panel bay. The drive supports 720 KB and 1.44
MB diskette media.
Security Loop
To physically lock the system, insert a padlock (not
shipped with the system) through the metal loop on the
rear of the chassis.
System Board Features
Each model includes a multiprocessor system board.
The system board offers a “flat” design with the
processor and memory subsystems residing on the
board. Figure 2-3 shows the major components on the
system board.
The following subsections describe the system board
major components.