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Hardware Installation

IDE Disk Drive Connectors

The system board is equipped with a shrouded PCI IDE header

that will interface two Enhanced IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics)

disk drives. To prevent improper IDE cable installation, the shrouded

PCI IDE header has a keying mechanism. The 40-pin connector on

the IDE cable can be placed into the header only if pin 1 of the

connector is aligned with pin 1 of the header.

The IDE connector supports 2 devices, a Master and a Slave. Use

an IDE ribbon cable to connect the drives to the system board. An

IDE ribbon cable have 3 connectors on them, one that plugs into an

IDE connector on the system board and the other 2 connects to

IDE devices. The connector at the end of the cable is for the Master

drive and the connector in the middle of the cable is for the Slave

drive.

Connecting the IDE Disk Drive Cable

Install one end of the IDE cable into the IDE header on the system

board and the other connectors to the IDE devices.

IDE

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