Gateway 960 - Manual (Page 39)

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Chapter 4: Installing Components
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■ If cable-select is available (drive assignments will be marked on the
cable), the IDE cable assigns the master/slave positions to the drives
it connects. You can override these assignments using the jumpers on
the drives.
■ If cable-select is not available and only one drive is attached to an IDE
controller cable, configure the drive as master if it is a CD or DVD
drive. If two drives of any type are attached to the cable, configure
one as master and one as slave.
■ If you are connecting two IDE drives to the cable, connect the middle
cable connector to the slave drive and connect the end cable
connector to the master (boot) drive.
■ You may need to configure the drives you install using the BIOS Setup
utility. Press F2 at startup to open the BIOS Setup utility.
Installing an IDE drive
Use these instructions to install or replace a diskette, CD or DVD, tape, or IDE
hard drive.
To install an IDE drive:
1
Follow the instructions in “Preventing static electricity discharge” on
page 27 .
2
Follow the instructions in “Opening the server case” on page 28 .