3 How to Install Accessories In Your PC

Installing Mass Storage Devices

CD-ROM drive

HDD data cable,data cableFlexible Disk Drive data cable Slave connector

HDD data cable,

Master connector

 

 

Examples of multiple IDE drive combinations

 

 

 

 

 

 

Configuration

 

 

Connections to data cables

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

Hard disk drive

 

1.

Bootable hard disk drive:

Master connector, HDD data cable

 

 

 

 

 

 

2

Hard disk drives

 

1.

Bootable hard disk drive:

Master connector, HDD data cable

 

 

 

2.

Second hard disk drive:

Slave connector, HDD data cable

 

 

 

 

 

 

3

Hard disk drives

 

1.

Bootable hard disk drive:

Master connector, HDD data cable

 

 

 

2.

Second hard disk drive:

Slave connector, HDD data cable

 

 

 

3.

Third hard disk drive:

CD-ROM data cable connector

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

Hard disk drive

 

1.

Bootable hard disk drive:

Master connector, HDD data cable

1

CD-ROM

 

2.

CD-ROM:

CD-ROM data cable connector

 

 

 

 

 

 

2

Hard disk drives

 

1.

Bootable hard disk drive:

Master connector, HDD data cable

1

CD-ROM

 

2.

Second hard disk drive:

Slave connector, HDD data cable

 

 

 

3.

CD-ROM:

CD-ROM data cable connector

 

 

 

 

 

 

NOTE

If you install two IDE devices with different data transfer rates on the

 

same data cable, the data transfer rate of the faster IDE device will be

 

reduced to match the rate of the slower IDE device.

 

 

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