Chapter 12. Physical Drive Installation and Configuration
Installing All Types of Drives
This chapter covers the actual installation of hard drives, optical drives (CD/DVD), floppy drives, and tape drives. This includes everything from preparing the components to setting jumpers to installing the actual cabling and physical installation. I also dig into some initial system software configuration issues, right up to the point of installing the operating system. From that point on, the steps you take depend on which operating system you are installing.
For more information on drive interfaces, magnetic storage, drive operation, and operating system issues, see the following chapters:
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