Installing A Hard Disk Drive/Cd-Rom - ECS P4S5A2 User Manual

Installing a Hard Disk Drive/CD-ROM

This section describes how to install IDE devices such as a
hard disk drive and a CD-ROM drive.
About IDE Devices
Your mainboard has a primary and secondary IDE channel in-
terface (IDE1 and IDE2). An IDE ribbon cable supporting two
IDE devices is bundled with the mainboard.
If you want to install more than two IDE devices, get a second
IDE cable and you can add two more devices to the secon-
dary IDE channel.
IDE devices have jumpers or switches that are used to set the
IDE device as MASTER or SLAVE. Refer to the IDE device
user's manual. When installing two IDE devices on one cable,
ensure that one device is set to MASTER and the other de-
vice is set to SLAVE. The documentation of your IDE device
explains how to do this.
About UltraDMA
This mainboard supports Ultra DMA 33/66/100. UDMA is a
technology that accelerates the performance of devices in the
IDE channel. To maximize performance, install IDE devices
that support UDMA and use 80-pin IDE cables that support
UDMA 33/66/100.
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