General Installation Guidelines; Connecting Drive Cables - Dell XPS /Dimension Gen 5 Owner's Manual

General Installation Guidelines

Connect serial ATA hard drives to the SATA0 - SATA3 connectors on the system board. Connect
CD/DVD drives to the IDE connector.
When you connect two IDE devices to a single IDE interface cable and configure them for the
cable select setting, the device attached to the last connector on the interface cable is the
primary or the boot device (drive 0), and the device attached to the middle connector on the
interface cable is the secondary device (drive 1). See the drive documentation in your upgrade
kit for information on configuring devices for the cable select setting.

Connecting Drive Cables

When you install a drive, you connect two cables—a DC power cable and a data cable—to the
back of the drive and to the system board. Some drives may also have an audio connector; one
end of the audio cable attaches to the drive connector and the other end attaches to the system
board.
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Removing and Installing Parts
media card reader
(optional)
CD/DVD drive(s)
hard drive(s)