Installing A Hard Disk Drive/Cd-Rom/Sata Hard Drive - ECS 945PL-A Manual

Installing a Hard Dish Drive/CD-ROM/SATA Hard Drive
This section describes how to install IDE devices such as a hard disk drive and a CD-ROM
drive.
About IDE Devices
Your motherboard has one IDE channel interface. An IDE ribbon cable supporting two IDE
devices is bundled with the motherboard.
You must orient the cable connector so that the pin1 (color) edge of the
cable correspoinds to the pin 1 of the I/O port connector.
IDE1: IDE Connector
This motherboard supports four high data transfer SATA ports with each runs up to 150
MB/s. To get better system performance, we recommend users connect the CD-ROM to
the IDE channel, and set up the hard dives on the SATA ports.
IDE devices enclose jumpers or switches used to set the IDE device as MASTER or SLAVE.
Refer to the IDE device user's manual. Installing two IDE devices on one cable, ensure that
one device is set to MASTER and the other device is set to SLAVE. The documentation of
your IDE device explains how to do this.
About SATA Connectors
Your motherboard features four SATA connectors supporting a total of four drives. SATA ,
or Serial ATA (Advanced Technology Attachment) is the standard interface for the IDE
hard drives which are currently used in most PCs. These connectors are well designed and
will only fit in one orientation. Locate the SATA connectors on the motherboard and follow
the illustration below to install the SATA hard drives.
Installing Serial ATA Hard Drives
To install the Serial ATA (SATA) hard drives, use the SATA cable that supports the Serial
ATA protocol. This SATA cable comes with an SATA power cable. You can connect either
end of the SATA cable to the SATA hard drive or the connector on the motherboard.
SATA cable
Installing the Motherboard
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SATA power cable
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