Abit BX6, User Manual

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Appendix B B-4
Installing three HDDs:
The red line on the connection cable must be lined up with pin 1 on the
connector.
Method 1: Set the hard disk drive used for boot up at Master, set the
second drive at Slave. Connect one connector of the 40-
pin cable to the first drive, another connector to the
second drive, and the other end of the cable to connector
IDE1 on the motherboard.
Set the other (the third) drive at Master, and connect one
end of the 40-pin cable to the drive, and the other end to
connector IDE2 on the motherboard.
Method 2: Set the hard disk drive used for boot up at Master, and
connect one end of the 40-pin cable to the drive and the
other end to connector IDE1 on the motherboard. Set
another drive (the second drive) at Master and the third
drive at Slave, connect one connector of the 40-pin cable
to the second drive, another connector to the third drive,
and the other end of the cable to connector IDE2 on the
motherboard.
Installing three HDDs + one CD-ROM drive:
The red line on the connection cable must be lined up with pin 1 on the
connector.
Set the hard disk drive used for boot up at Master, set another HDD (the second)
at Slave, connect one connector of the 40-pin cable to the first drive, another
connector to the second drive, and the other end of the cable to connector IDE1
on the motherboard.
Set the third hard disk drive at Master, set the CD-ROM drive at Slave, connect
one connector of the 40-pin cable to the third HDD, another connector to the CD-
ROM drive, and the other end of the cable to connector IDE2 on the motherboard.
BIOS Setup:
♦
If all your HDDs are new, you can use the IDE HDD Auto Detection option
in the CMOS to auto detect the parameters of all your drives. You don’t need
to set any hard disk parameter
.
♦
If one or several of your HDDs are old, and if you don’t know their
parameters, and you want to reconfigure your drives, you can still use the
IDE HDD Auto Detection option in the CMOS to auto detect the drives
parameters .