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Installing the Hard Drive 11

If two drives will be connected to the ATA cable:

• The existing boot drive should be plugged into the black

connector on the cable

• The new drive should be plugged into the gray connector.

If the new drive will be the only device on the ATA cable, plug it

into the black connector on the cable.

Connect power cables to all devices plugged into the ATA cable.

Typical ATA Device Conﬁgurations

Most systems are capable of holding four ATA/IDE devices, two

devices on the primary cable and two devices on the secondary cable.

Typical configurations are as follows:

New System or Failed Boot Drive

(See “Installing a New Boot Drive (Windows 98, Me)” on page 16.)

Cable Position Device

Primary Master, 0: Boot Drive (New Maxtor Drive)

Primary Slave, 1: No Device

Secondary Master, 0: CD/DVD Drive

Secondary Slave, 1: No Device

Primary Master, 0

Primary

Figure 10

Typical Device Configuration

(Boot Drive)

Primary Slave, 1

(Additional

Storage)

Connection

Motherboard

Secondary

Connection

Motherboard

Secondary Master,

Secondary Slave, 1

(Open)

0 (CD-ROM)

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