Abit SM5, User Manual

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General Discussion about HDD Installation E-5
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
mainboard.
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 mainboard.
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 mainboard. 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 mainboard.
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 mainboard.
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 mainboard.
BIOS Setup:
♦
If all your HDDs are new, you can use the IDE HDD Auto Detection
option in the CMOS to autodetect 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 also use the
IDE HDD Auto Detection option in the CMOS to autodetect the drives
parameters .