Chapter 4: Installing Components

■IDE hard drives can be configured as single, master, slave, or cable-select. IDE CD or DVD drives can be configured as master, slave, or cable-select.

■If cable-select is available (drive assignments will be marked on the cable), the IDE cable assigns the master/slave positions to the drives it connects. You can override these assignments using the jumpers on the drives.

■If cable-select is not available and only one drive is attached to an IDE controller cable, configure the drive as master if it is a CD or DVD drive. If two drives of any type are attached to the cable, configure one as master and one as slave.

■If you are connecting two IDE drives to the cable, connect the middle cable connector to the slave drive and connect the end cable connector to the master (boot) drive.

■You may need to configure the drives you install using the BIOS Setup utility. Press F2 at startup to open the BIOS Setup utility.

Installing a CD, DVD, or diskette drive

Important Drives connected to the primary and secondary IDE connectors should be ATA100 drives, and drives connected to the third IDE connector should be ATA66 drives.

To install a CD, DVD, or diskette drive:

1 Follow the instructions in “Preventing static electricity discharge” on page 25.

2 Follow the instructions in “Opening the server case” on page 26.

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