Abit IT5E Series User Manual page 89

General Discussion about HDD Installation
Installing three HDDs:
Method 1: Set the hard disk drive used for boot up at Master,
Method 2: Set the hard disk drive used for boot up at Master,
Installing three HDDs + one CD-ROM drive:
Set the hard disk drive used for boot up at Master, set another
HDD (the second) at Slave, connect one connector of the 40-pin
cable to the first drive, another connector to the second drive,
and the other end of the cable to connector IDE1 on the
mainboard.
Set the third hard disk drive at Master, set the CD-ROM drive at
Slave, connect one connector of the 40-pin cable to the third
HDD, another connector to the CD-ROM drive, and the other
end of the cable to connector IDE2 on the mainboard.
BIOS Setup:
If all your HDDs are new, you can use the IDE HDD Auto
Detection option in the CMOS to autodetect the parameters of
all your drives. You don' t need to set any hard disk parameter.
If one or several of your HDDs are old, and if you don' t know
their parameters, and you want to reconfigure your drives, you
can also use the IDE HDD Auto Detection option in the
CMOS to autodetect the drives parameters.
The red line on the connection cable must be lined up with pin 1 on the connector.
set the second drive at Slave. Connect one connector
of the 40-pin cable to the first drive, another
connector to the second drive, and the other end of
the cable to connector IDE1 on the mainboard.
Set the other (the third) drive at Master, and connect
one end of the 40-pin cable to the drive, and the
other end to connector IDE2 on the mainboard.
and connect one end of the 40-pin cable to the drive
and the other end to connector IDE1 on the
mainboard. Set another drive (the second drive) at
Master and the third drive at Slave, connect one
connector of the 40-pin cable to the second drive,
another connector to the third drive, and the other
end of the cable to connector IDE2 on the
mainboard.
The red line on the connection cable must
be lined up with pin 1 on the connector.
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