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Hardware Installation
IDE Connector
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The IDE connector is used to connect hard drives. The connector on the IDE
cable can be inserted into this connector only if pin 1 of the cable is aligned with
pin 1 of this connector.
The IDE connector supports 2 devices, a Master and a Slave. Use an IDE ribbon
cable to connect the drives to the system board. An IDE ribbon cable has 3 con-
nectors on them, one that plugs into the IDE connector on the system board and
the other 2 connects to IDE devices. The connector at the end of the cable is for
the Master drive and the connector in the middle of the cable is for the Slave
drive.
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