Gateway E-5400 - Manual (Page 48)

Preparing to replace or add a drive 41
Drive cabling information
Three drive cables are included with your system. The diskette drive connector
cable is used to connect diskette drives and other non-IDE devices such as
tape backup drives. The two IDE connector cables are used to connect IDE
devices such as CD-ROM drives and hard drives.
If you want to add additional drives, you can replace the drive connector
cables with ones that contain three connectors, which would let you add a
total of four IDE devices or two diskette drives.
Diskette Drive
Connector Cable
IDE Connector Cables (two cables)
To floppy
connector on
system board
To diskette
drive that
came with
your system
Black to
IDE drive
End of data
cable with
twisted
conductors
80 wire cable
Blue to
secondary IDE
connector on
system board Blue to
primary IDE
connector
on system
board
Black to
CD-ROM drive
Gray to
IDE drive
Gray to
CD-ROM
drive
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