Floppy Disk/Hard Disk Support - Acer AcerPower 8600 User Manual

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Chapter 2
System Board Information

Floppy Disk/Hard Disk Support

The board comes with an enhanced PCI IDE controller that supports
PIO mode 4 and Ultra DMA (Direct Memory Access) mode data
transfers. Two PCI IDE interfaces are mounted on the board to
enable the system to support a maximum of four IDE hard disks, or
any other IDE devices. See "Jumpers and Connectors" on page 31 for
the location of the IDE interfaces.
Connect the cables according to the IDE hard disk configuration listed
in the table below. Follow the instructions in the housing installation
manual on how to install a hard disk in the system.
IDE Connector
Master
IDE 1 (CN8)
Hard disk 0
IDE 2 (CN7)
Hard disk 2/IDE CD-
ROM
Slave
Hard disk 1
Hard disk 3

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