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3 How to Install Accessories In Your PC

Installing Mass Storage Devices

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English

NOTE

If you install two IDE devices with different data transfer rates on the
same data cable, the data transfer rate of the faster IDE device will be
reduced to match the rate of the slower IDE device.

Examples of multiple IDE drive combinations

Configuration

Connections to data cables

1 Hard disk drive

1. Bootable hard disk drive:

Master connector, HDD data cable

2 Hard disk drives

1. Bootable hard disk drive:
2. Second hard disk drive:

Master connector, HDD data cable
Slave connector, HDD data cable

3 Hard disk drives

1. Bootable hard disk drive:
2. Second hard disk drive:
3. Third hard disk drive:

Master connector, HDD data cable
Slave connector, HDD data cable
CD-ROM data cable connector

1 Hard disk drive
1 CD-ROM

1. Bootable hard disk drive:
2. CD-ROM:

Master connector, HDD data cable
CD-ROM data cable connector

2 Hard disk drives
1 CD-ROM

1. Bootable hard disk drive:
2. Second hard disk drive:
3. CD-ROM:

Master connector, HDD data cable
Slave connector, HDD data cable
CD-ROM data cable connector

Flexible Disk Drive data cable

HDD data cable,
Slave connector

HDD data cable,
Master connector

CD-ROM drive
data cable

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