■If only one drive is attached to a controller cable, configure the drive as single if it is a hard drive or master if it is a CD drive. If two drives of any type are attached to the cable, configure one as master and one as slave.

■You may need to configure the drives you install using the BIOS Setup utility program. Press F1 at start up to access the BIOS Setup utility program.

Important If you choose to buy another IDE or SCSI hard drive, you must also buy the appropriate IDE or SCSI controller card.

Drive cabling information

Three drive cables are included with your system. The diskette drive connector cable is used to connect diskette drives and other non-IDE devices such as tape backup drives. The two IDE connector cables are used to connect IDE devices such as CD drives and hard drives.

If you want to add additional drives, you can replace the drive connector cables with ones that contain three connectors, which would let you add a total of four IDE devices or two diskette drives.

Diskette Drive

IDE Connector Cables (two cables)

Connector Cable

To floppy connector on

riser card

To diskette drive that

came with your system

Black to secondary IDE connector on riser card

40 wire cable

Blue to primary IDE connector on riser card

80 wire cable

Black to connector

Black to connector

on CD drive

on IDE drive

Preparing to replace or add a drive

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