Abit IT5 Series User Manual page 101

General Discussion about HDD Installation
Installing three HDDs:
Method 1: Set the hard disk drive used for boot up at Master, set
Method 2: Set the hard disk drive used for boot up at Master, and
Installing three HDDs + one CD-ROM drive:
Set the hard disk drive used for boot up at Master, set another HDD
(the second) at Slave, connect one connector of the 40-pin cable to
the first drive, another connector to the second drive, and the other
end of the cable to connector IDE1 on the mainboard.
Set the third hard disk drive at Master, set the CD-ROM drive at
Slave, connect one connector of the 40-pin cable to the third HDD,
another connector to the CD-ROM drive, and the other end of the
cable to connector IDE2 on the mainboard.
BIOS Setup:
If all your HDDs are new, you can use the IDE HDD Auto
Detection option in the CMOS to autodetect the parameters of all
your drives. You don' t need to set any hard disk parameter.
If one or several of your HDDs are old, and if you don' t know their
parameters, and you want to reconfigure your drives, you can also
use the IDE HDD Auto Detection option in the CMOS to
autodetect the drives parameters.
The red line on the connection cable must be lined up with pin 1 on the connector.
the second drive at Slave. Connect one connector of the
40-pin cable to the first drive, another connector to the
second drive, and the other end of the cable to connector
IDE1 on the mainboard.
Set the other (the third) drive at Master, and connect one
end of the 40-pin cable to the drive, and the other end to
connector IDE2 on the mainboard.
connect one end of the 40-pin cable to the drive and the
other end to connector IDE1 on the mainboard. Set
another drive (the second drive) at Master and the third
drive at Slave, connect one connector of the 40-pin cable
to the second drive, another connector to the third drive,
and the other end of the cable to connector IDE2 on the
mainboard.
The red line on the connection cable must
be lined up with pin 1 on the connector.
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