B Pata Hard Drive Installation Guidelines; Using The Cable-Select Feature With Parallel Ata (Pata) Devices; Guidelines For Installing Pata Drives - HP Compaq d538 SFF Hardware Reference Manual

PATA Hard Drive Installation Guidelines
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Using the Cable-Select Feature with Parallel ATA
(PATA) Devices
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Guidelines for Installing PATA Drives

Hardware Reference Guide
For more information about Serial ATA (SATA) devices, refer to the
white paper "Implementation of Serial ATA on HP Business
Desktops". The white paper is located at
Optional drives are available from HP in kits that include a special
drive cable. The configuration of the drive employs a cable-select
feature that identifies the drive as device 0 (primary drive) or device 1
(secondary drive).
Device 1 is the drive connected to the cable's middle connector.
Device 0 is the drive connected to the cable's end connector (applies
only to 80-conductor ATA cables). See
PATA Drives" in this appendix for an example of an PATA cable.
HP hard drives ship with jumpers preset to cable-select mode;
therefore, no jumper setting changes on the existing or optional drives
are required. If you purchase a third-party hard drive, refer to the
documentation included with the kit to ensure proper installation and
configuration of cables.
If installing a second device on the primary controller, you must use
an 80-conductor PATA cable for optimal performance. This cable is
standard on select models.
When installing additional drives, follow these guidelines:
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