Installing A Hard Disk Drive/Cd-Rom/Sata Hard Drive - ECS A960M-M3 Manual

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Installing a Hard Disk Drive/CD-ROM/SATA Hard Drive

This section describes how to install IDE devices such as a hard disk drive and a
CDROM drive.
About IDE Devices
Your motherboard has one IDE interface.
IDE: IDE Connector
This motherboard supports four high data transfer SATA ports with each runs up to
3.0 Gb/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.
* For reference only
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.
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