Drive Cabling Considerations - Gateway 910 Series System Manual

As you prepare to install drives, keep the following in mind:
When you remove and install drives, use an antistatic wrist strap.
If you remove a drive, place it in an antistatic bag or container.
Before you install a drive, see the drive documentation for information
on configuring the drive, setting any jumpers on the drive, and attaching
cables to the drive.
If you are installing a drive that requires a controller card, install the card
before you install the drive.
IDE hard drives can be configured as single, master, slave, or cable-select.
IDE CD drives can be configured as master, slave, or cable-select.
Configure the drives by using the drive-select jumpers located on the
drives.
If cable-select is available (drive assignments will be marked on the
cable), the IDE cable automatically assigns master/slave positions to
the drives they connect. You can override these assignments using
the jumpers on the drives.
If cable-select is not available, and only one drive is attached to a
controller cable, configure the drive as master if it is a CD drive. If
two drives of any type are attached to the cable, configure one as
master and one as slave.
One or more controllers are needed to support a full-compliment
of drives. In addition, additional cables (available from Gateway) are
required to support a drive configuration beyond the five supported
by the integrated controllers on the system board.
You may need to configure the drives you install using the BIOS Setup
utility. Press F1 at start up to open the BIOS Setup utility.

Drive cabling considerations

Your server includes different types of drive cables. Each drive cable is clearly
labeled, indicating the cable-type and showing which end is connected to the
appropriate connector on the system board and which end is connected to
the drive.
Use the diskette drive cable to connect the diskette drive. Use the standard
IDE cable (labeled secondary IDE) to connect IDE devices such as CD drives
and standard IDE hard drives. Use the 40-pin connector, 80-pin conductor
cable (labeled primary IDE) to connect DMA-100 -compatible hard drives.
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