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Installing Mass Storage Devices

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1 How to Install Accessories in Your Desktop PC Installing Mass Storage Devices Installing Mass Storage Devices NOTE You can install a non-IDE hard disk drive or CD-ROM drive, but it will need an accessory board and driver software (usually supplied with the drive). Contact the product vendor for further information. You can install additional mass storage devices if you need extra mass storage space. Up to two hard disk drives and two front-access devices (in addition to the floppy disk drive) can be installed in your PC. Your PC may already have a CD-ROM drive installed in one of the frontaccess shelves. Connecting IDE Devices If you add an IDE Zip drive, hard disk drive, CD-ROM drive, or tape drive, you need to connect it to power and data cables. The data cables are shown below: IDE Hard Disk Drive data cable (the Master connector is at the end of the cable) CD-ROM Drive data cable (the Master connector is at the end of the cable) Note: If your PC does not have a preinstalled CD-ROM drive it will not have a CD-ROM data cable. Flexible Disk Drive data cable (nonIDE) English 7

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How to Install Accessories in Your Desktop PC
Installing Mass Storage Devices
Installing Mass Storage Devices
NOTE
You can install a non-IDE hard disk drive or CD-ROM drive, but it will
need an accessory board and driver software (usually supplied with the
drive). Contact the product vendor for further information.
You can install additional mass storage devices if you need extra mass
storage space. Up to two hard disk drives and two front-access devices
(in addition to the floppy disk drive) can be installed in your PC. Your
PC may already have a CD-ROM drive installed in one of the front-
access shelves.
Connecting IDE Devices
If you add an IDE Zip drive, hard disk drive, CD-ROM drive, or tape
drive, you need to connect it to power and data cables. The data cables
are shown below:
CD-ROM Drive data cable (the Master
connector is at the end of the cable)
Flexible Disk Drive
data cable (non-
IDE)
Note: If your PC does not
have a preinstalled CD-ROM
drive it will not have a
CD-ROM data cable.
IDE Hard Disk Drive data cable (the Master
connector is at the end of the cable)