II.HARDWARE INSTALLATION
2-10
AP0 USER’S MANUAL
2-2.10 IDE Hard Disk and CD-ROM Connector
Connect your IDE devices to the onboard 40-pin IDE connectors marked as
Primary
and
Secondary
.
It is suggested that you connect the IDE devices to your IDE cables as the
figure shown above. Each IDE channel, either Primary or Secondary, supports
two IDE devices which must be set differently to master mode and slave
mode.
(Refer to your hard disk and CD-ROM user’ s manual for detailed settings of
IDE master and slave mode.)
Secondary
Primary
Primary
Slave
Secondary IDE Cable
Primary IDE Cable
Master
Slave
Master
Secondary
