Ide Drive Addressing; Connecting Drive Cables - Dell Precision 350 User Manual

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Drives
Dell Precision™ Workstation 350 User's Guide
Overview
Hard Drive
Front-Panel Inserts
Floppy Drive
CD/DVD Drive
Overview
Your computer supports:
Two hard drives
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Two floppy drives
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Two CD or DVD drives
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1 CD/DVD drive(s)
2 floppy drive(s)
3 hard drive(s)

IDE Drive Addressing

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 master or boot device (drive 0), and the device attached to the middle connector on the interface cable is the slave device (drive 1).
See the drive documentation in your upgrade kit for information on configuring devices for the cable select setting.
Your computer supports up to two IDE devices. Hard drives should be connected to the connector labeled "IDE1," and CD/DVD drives should be connected to
the connector labeled "IDE2."

Connecting Drive Cables

When you install a drive, you connect two cables—a DC power cable and an interface cable—to the back of the drive.
1 Power cable