drive, and has one additional connector available. The Secondary connector supports your CD-ROM as a master and your Zip drive as a slave. To locate these connectors, see the illustration in the back of this manual.

Preparations for Installing Drives

To avoid accidental discharge of static electricity as you handle components or switches, use a grounding wrist strap, or refer this procedure to qualified service personnel.

As you install drives, keep the following in mind:

∙AST tests the drives it distributes to ensure that they are compatible with AST computers. These drives are recommended for use in this system.

∙To ensure that a newly installed drive is properly grounded, tighten all screws completely.

To prepare a drive for installation, read the documentation that came with it. Also do the following:

∙Note its capacity in kilobytes or megabytes.

∙For a tape-backup drive, configure the device in accordance with the instructions that came with the drive.

∙For an IDE hard drive, position the drive-select jumper to configure the drive as master or slave. Your system ships with the hard drive as master, and the master should be the drive from which the system boots.

∙If a hard drive has a defect list, copy down the information and save it.

Installing a Drive in the Front Drive Bay

To install the drive:

1.Turn the computer off, unplug the power cord, and disconnect all peripheral devices. Remove the system cover and the front panel (see “Replacing the System Cover” on page 21 and “Removing the Bottom Panel” on page 21).

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