Configuring The New Ide Drive - Gateway Computer Drive User Manual

Chapter 3: Installing a New Drive

Configuring the new IDE drive

You can configure CD, DVD, diskette, and Zip drives as bootable drives. You can
use bootable drives to start up (boot) your computer with special bootable
media, such as a system diskette (a diskette that contains operating system files).
Your system board may contain as many as three controllers (where the wide
ribbon cables attach to the main system board or a host adapter add-in card).
One controller is for the diskette drive. Two are for IDE drives. One of the IDE
controllers is the primary controller and the other is the secondary controller.
Each IDE controller can contain two devices, a master device and a slave device.
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Master drive
Slave drive
IDE data cable