HP Vectra XA 5/xxx User Manual page 36

Internal Connectors
Connectors for 3.5-inch
Flexible Disk Drive or
Tape Drive
Which Connectors to
Use
NOTE
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If you add a flexible disk drive, hard disk drive, CD-ROM drive, or tape
drive, you need to connect it to power and data cables. The data cables
are shown below:
Connector for
5.25-inch Flexible
Disk Drive
There are two different cables for IDE drives:
The first cable is attached to the connector marked "Primary IDE" on
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the system board connector, and has two connectors on the cable.
The first connector must be connected to the bootable (master)
hard disk drive. The second (or slave) connector is for a secondary
hard disk drive.
The second cable is attached to the connector marked "Secondary
•
IDE" on the system board, and has two connectors on the cable. The
connectors can be used for either CD-ROM drives or hard disk
drives.
If you install a hard disk drive and connect it to the same cable to which
the CD-ROM drive is connected, the hard disk drive must be connected
to the middle connector, not the end connector. If you have a CD-ROM
drive currently connected to the middle connector, you must reconnect
the CD-ROM drive to the end connector of the cable, and then attach
the new hard disk drive to the middle connector.
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For Bootable Hard Disk Drive
Connectors for IDE Hard
Disk Drives
Connectors for Secondary
IDE Drive, for CD-ROM Drive
or Hard Disk drive