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Mounting ATA Disk Drives and Connecting Power Cables

Connecting Two ATA Disk Drives to the Same Cable

When you connect two ATA disk drives to a cable, one disk drive
must be set as the master, the other must be set as the slave. (See
Setting Jumpers on ATA Disk Drives on page5 for more information.)
To connect two disk drives to the same cable:
1Connect one end of an IDE cable to an IDE
connector on the ASH-1233 adapter.
2
Connect the
middle
connector on the IDE cable
to the ATA disk drive that is set as the
slave
.
3Connect the other end of the IDE cable to the
ATA disk drive that is set as the master.
You can connect a maximum of four ATA disk
drives to your ASH-1233 adapter, as shown at
right.
Continue with Mounting ATA Disk Drives and Connecting Power
Cables on page 8.
Mounting ATA Disk Drives and Connecting Power Ca bles
To complete the hardware installation:
1Mount each ATA disk drive in an available drive bay inside
your computer (as shown below).
Refer to your computer and device documentation for
instructions on installing devices inside your computer.