2. Hardware Installation
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Remember, set jumper cap to the secondary, position on the
AMR card while you are installing the card, also read the
manual and installation notes that come with the adapter card.
Install the IDE Devices
The motherboard has two IDE channel connectors, the Primary IDE channel
and the Secondary IDE channel. Each IDE channel can support two devices.
IDE devices include hard disk drives, CD-ROM drives, and removable media
drives such as ZIP drives and LS-120 drives.
When you install two devices on a single IDE channel, you must
configure one of the devices as a MASTER device and one of the
devices as a SLAVE device. These configurations have no effect
on performance and are just a naming convention so that your
system can distinguish between the two devices on the same
channel.
All IDE devices have documentation that tells you how to set the
device as MASTER or SLAVE. Normally you do this by changing
a jumper cap on the rear edge of the device. If you are installing
two devices on the IDE ribbon cable, configure one device as
MASTER and one device as SLAVE before you begin.
In order to achieve higher data transfer, you must be used a special
