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• If you have a 40-pin 40-conductor cable,
attach the system connector of the cable
to the IDE port on the motherboard or
controller card. The pin 1 side of the IDE
cable is marked with a stripe. The
connector can only be inserted one way.
• If you have a 40-pin 80-conductor cable,
attach the drive to the appropriate
color-coded connector. Forty-pin
80-conductor cables are color-coded
black for Master, gray for Slave, and blue
for system connectors.
10. Attach the power supply cable to the drive.
Match the connector bevels.
11. Mount the drive securely.
12. Verify all attachments.
13. Replace the computer cover.
14. Plug in the computer.
15. Turn on the computer.
16. Verify that the hard disk is recognized by the
BIOS and is reporting the full capacity of the
drive. Instructions for accessing your BIOS
can be found in the computer system manual
or in the motherboard manufacturer
documentation. If the drive is not recognized
in the BIOS, set the BIOS options of your
computer system to Auto Detection and LBA
mode if available. Once the drive is
recognized correctly in the BIOS, it is ready to
be partitioned and formatted.
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