System Requirements

Installation

 

 

3 INSTALLATION

3.1SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Before installing the Zeus SSD in your system, make sure you have the following items:

•Mounting hardware (as required)

•ATA (IDE) bus interface cable (as specified in Table 10, below)

•For 3.5-inch Zeus SSD; available 5V power source (4-pin connector)

Table 10. ATA (IDE) Cable Requirements

Drive (form factor)

ATA (IDE) Interface

Operating Mode

 

 

 

2.5-inch Zeus SSD

44-pin; 44 conductor

PIO modes 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4

 

 

Ultra DMA modes 0, 1 and 2

 

44-pin 80-conductor

Ultra DMA modes 3 and 4

 

 

 

3.5-inch Zeus SSD

40-pin; 40 conductor

PIO modes 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4

 

 

Ultra DMA modes 0, 1 and 2

 

40-pin; 80 conductor

Ultra DMA modes 3 and 4

 

 

 

3.2DRIVE CONFIGURATION

Before installing the SSD, the drive must be configured to operate as either the Master or Slave IDE device. The Master/Slave setting represents the ordering of electronic devices on an IDE channel. If the Zeus SSD is the only ATA (IDE) drive installed in the system, set up the drive as the master device. If two drives are installed in the machine, one device must be configured as the master and the other as the slave. Jumpers located at the rear of the Zeus SSD allow you to configure the drive as either the Master or the Slave device.

Zeus Ultra DMA Solid State Drives

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