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10 Installing the Hard Drive
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Hard Drive Position Tips
Most systems are capable of holding four ATA/IDE devices, two devices on the primary cable
and two devices on the secondary cable or port. Typical configurations are as follows:
New System
(See “Installing Hard Drive as a Boot Drive” on page 16.)
Cable Position Device
Primary Master, 0: Boot Drive
Primary Slave, 1: No Device
Secondary Master, 0: CD-ROM
Secondary Slave, 1: No Device
Existing System 1
(See Figure 10 and “Installing Hard Drive as an Additional Hard Drive” on page 21.)
Cable Position Device
Primary Master, 0: Boot Drive
Primary Slave, 1: Additional Storage Drive
Secondary Master, 0: CD-ROM
Secondary Slave, 1: No Device
Primary Master, 0
Primary
Figure 11. Typical Device Configuration
(Boot Drive)
Primary Slave, 1
(Additional
Storage)
Connection
Motherboard
Secondary
Connection
Motherboard
Secondary Master, 0
(CD-ROM)
Secondary Slave, 1
(Open)