Installing A Hard Disk Drive/Cd-Rom - ASROCK SIS741GX-NB Manual

Installing a Hard Disk Drive/CD-ROM

This section describes how to install IDE devices such as a hard disk drive
and a CD-ROM drive.
Your motherboard has a primary and secondary IDE channel interface (IDE1 and
IDE2). An IDE ribbon cable supporting two IDE devices is bundled with the moth-
erboard.
If you want to install more than two IDE devices, get a second IDE cable and
you can add two more devices to the secondary IDE channel.
IDE1: Primary IDE Connector
The first hard drive should always be connected to IDE1.
IDE2: Secondary IDE
The second drive on this controller must be set to slave mode. The configura-
tion is the same as IDE1.
You must orient the cable connector so that the pin 1 (color) edge of the
cable corresponds to the pin 1 of the I/O port connector.
IDE devices have jumpers or switches that are used to set the IDE device as
MASTER or SLAVE. Refer to the IDE device user's manual. When 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.
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