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Install the IDE Devices
The motherboard has two IDE channel connectors, the Primary IDE channel and
the Secondary IDE channel. Each IDE channel can support two devices for a
maximum of four devices. IDE devices include hard disk drives, CD-ROM drives,
and removable media drives such as ZIP drives and LS-120 drives.
When you install two devices on a single IDE channel, you must
configure one of the devices as a MASTER device and one of the
devices as a SLAVE device. These configurations have no effect on
performance and are just a naming convention so that your system
can distinguish between the two devices on the same channel.
All IDE devices have documentation that tells you how to set the device
as MASTER or SLAVE. Normally you do this by changing a jumper
cap on the rear edge of the device. If you are installing two devices on
the IDE ribbon cable, configure one device as MASTER and one device
as SLAVE before you begin.
In order to achieve higher data transfer, you must be used a special
80-Pin ribbon cable is designed with 40-Pin connector which has
additional grounding wire. The cable is included and is required when
using ATA-66 drives, this cable will also support all legacy IDE
devices.
Follow the procedure below to install the IDE devices.
Install the IDE device(s) into a suitable drive bay in your system case.
Locate the Primary IDE channel connector on the motherboard. The connector
is named IDE1(Blue). Plug one end connector (Blue) of the IDE ribbon cable into
IDE1. Plug one of the other connector into the data connector on the rear edge of
the IDE device. If you are installing two devices, plug the other connector into the
data connector on the rear edge of the second device.
If you have install a CD-ROM (or DVD) drive, you need to connect the audio output of
the drive to the sound system integrated on the motherboard. This procedure is
explained in the following section audio connections.
If the connector is not keyed make sure that you match the Pin-1
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