Gateway E-5400 Drive cabling information

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-ROM 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

Connector Cable

To floppy connector on

system board

End of data cable with twisted conductors

To diskette drive that came with your system

IDE Connector Cables (two cables)
	Blue to	Blue to
	secondary IDE	primary IDE
	connector on	connector
	system board	on system
	80 wire cable	board
		Gray to
	Gray to	IDE drive
	CD-ROM	Black to
	drive
	Black to	IDE drive
	CD-ROM drive

Preparing to replace or add a drive 41