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- Laser Safety Guide for CD-ROMs
Contact your place of purchase if an item is missing or damaged. Be sure to retain your proof of purchase. It
might be required to receive warranty service. See Help and Service Information for technical support
information.
Installing the Drive:
Opening the Computer:
1. Turn off the computer and all attached peripherals.
2. Unplug the power cords for the computer and all attached devices.
3. Remove the cover from the computer.
Unpacking the Drive:
1. In order to discharge any accumulated static electricity, touch an unpainted metal surface for at least two
seconds.
2. Take the bag the drive is packed in and touch it to an unpainted metal surface for at least two seconds.
3. Remove the drive from the bag.
If you must put the drive down, place the antistatic bag on a flat padded surface, such as a magazine, and
place the drive on the bag with the component side facing up.
Selecting an IDE Port:
Newer computers typically have two IDE ports. If your computer has two IDE ports, use the secondary IDE
port to connect the CD-ROM drive. Typically the secondary IDE port is adjacent to the primary IDE port that
connects to your hard disk drive.
The IDE port you select and the cable position you select will determine which configuration jumper setting
you will use for the drive. See Setting the Configuration Jumper for instructions on setting the configuration
jumper.
If you have two IDE ports, connect the CD-ROM drive to the secondary IDE port with the IDE cable that
comes with your drive. If the CD-ROM drive is the only device on the secondary IDE port, you will use the
master configuration setting. If there is another device on the secondary port in addition to the CD-ROM
drive, you will use the slave configuration setting.
If you must attach the CD-ROM drive to the same IDE port as a faster device, such as a hard disk drive, you
will use the slave setting for the CD-ROM drive and the master setting for the faster device. In some
instances, the hard disk drive may require a master-with-slave-present setting when another device on the
same cable is configured as a slave. For further information on setting configuration jumpers on other
devices, refer to the documentation that came with your system or with the device in
question.
Some non-IBM computers support the cable-select setting, where the position of the device on the cable
determines whether adevice is master or slave. See the documentation that comes with your computer to
determine if your system supports this setting.
Setting the Configuration Jumper:
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