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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 mainboard.
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 mainboard.
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 mainboard.
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 mainboard.
We recommend you use this kind of connection,
which has no influence on HDD speed.
Installing two 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,
and the other drive at Slave. Connect one of the
connectors 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.
Method 2:
Set the hard disk drive used for boot up at Master,
connect one end of the 40-pin cable to the drive,
and the other end to connector IDE1 on the
mainboard.
