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II. BARE-BONE KITS

DRIVE BAY

There are two types of drive bays, that could mount, floppy drive, CD-

ROM drive and hard disk drive. One type is fixed type and another is

removable type which has key-lock feature, refer to the following figures:

Fig 2-4: Fixed type drive bay

Fig 2-5: Hot-Swap drive bay

The ASUS Back Plane Board, DA-BP4 series, were designed for carrying

four removable SCSI devices per Back Plane Board. Normally those re-

movable SCSI drives are installed on the Hot-Swap Drive Bay with a small

slot card connected together (Fig 2-7). When the completed drive set plugs

in, the slot board of drive Bay and bus of DA-BP4 will be connected to-

gether. After that, all the four SCSI-ID of SCSI devices could be managed

from the switches of Back Plane Board (Fig 2-6). Moreover there are two

models of Back Plane Boards available for none SAF-TE and SAF-TE which

are named DA-BP4-1 and DA-BP4-1S. SAF-TE one mounted one more

management chip named GEM200RE in which could provide additional

status information of device drives (Detail refer to chapter 3).

Fig 2-6: DA-BP4 series Back Plane Board

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