Abit BH6, User Manual

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General Discussion about HDD Installation B-3
Installing a hard disk:
In the Standard CMOS Setup Menu,
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Primary means the first connector on the motherboard, that is,
connector IDE1 on our motherboard.
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Secondary means the second connector on the motherboard, that
is, connector IDE2 on our motherboard.
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Two HDDs can be connected to the each connector:
The first HDD is referred to as Master,
The second HDD is referred to as Slave.
The Master or Slave status of the hard disk drive is set on the hard
disk itself. Refer to the hard disk drive manual.
Installing one HDD :
The red line on the connection cable must be lined up with pin 1 on
the connector.
Be sure that your hard disk drive is set at Master. Actually, most hard
disk drives are set at Master as a default, so you don’t need to adjust
any setting. Just connect one end of the 40 pin cable on the drive
connector, and the other end to connector IDE1 on the motherboard.
Installing one HDD + one CD-ROM drive:
The red line on the connection
cable must be lined up with pin 1 on the connector.
Method 1: Set the HDD at Master, and the CD-ROM drive at Slave.
Connect one connector of the 40-pin cable to the hard disk,
another one to the CD-ROM drive, and the other end to
connector IDE1 on the motherboard.
Method 2: Set the HDD as Master and connect one end of the 40-pin
cable to the HDD, and the other end to connector IDE1 on
the motherboard.
You can ignore the setting of the CD-ROM drive, just
connect one end of the 40-pin cable to the CD-ROM drive,
and the other end to connector IDE2 on the motherboard.
We recommend you use this kind of connection, since it
has no influence on HDD speed.