Connecting The Ide Cable - Intel D845PEBT2 Product Manual

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Connecting the IDE Cable

The Intel

boxed desktop board package includes an IDE cable. The cable can connect two drives

to the desktop board. The cable supports the Ultra DMA-33 and ATA-66/100 transfer protocols.

Figure 9 shows the correct installation of the cable.

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NOTE

ATA-66/100 compatible cables are backward compatible with drives using slower IDE transfer

protocols. If an ATA-66/100 disk drive and a disk drive using any other IDE transfer protocol are

attached to the same cable, the maximum transfer rate between the drives may be reduced to that

of the slowest drive.

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NOTE

Do not connect an ATA device as a slave on the same IDE cable as an ATAPI master device. For

example, do not connect an ATA hard drive as a slave to an ATAPI CD-ROM drive.

For correct function of the cable:

1. Observe the precautions in "Before You Begin" on page 23.

2. Attach the cable end with the single connector to the desktop board (Figure 9, A).

3. Attach the cable end with the two closely spaced connectors to the drives (Figure 9, B).

Installing and Replacing Desktop Board Components

Figure 9. Connecting the IDE Cable

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