About ide, Additional drive replacing drive, Installation – Yamaha CRW8424E User Manual

Page 21: Ide connectors on the motherboard

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Installation

Additional Drive

Replacing Drive

About IDE

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IDE (Enhanced IDE/E-IDE) is one of the standards applied to the connection
between personal computers and their peripherals.
A computer motherboard provides two IDE connectors (primary and second-
ary). (Although, some motherboards provide only a primary connector.)
You may connect up to two IDE devices (hard disk, CD-ROM, or CD-R drives)
to the connectors using an IDE cable. One of the devices connected via the IDE
cable is called “master” and the other called “slave.”

IDE connectors
on the motherboard

PRIMARY IDE

SECONDARY IDE

IDE device

(slave)

IDE device

(slave)

IDE cable

(primary)

IDE cable (secondary)

IDE device

(master)

IDE device

(master)

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Disconnect all the cables connected to the rear of the existing
CD-ROM drive, and also disconnect the audio cable from the
sound card or motherboard’s audio connector.

The existing CD-ROM drive in the computer is assumed to be an
IDE-type.

ANALOG

AUDIO

CABLE SELECT

SLAVE

MASTER

POWER

HOST INTERF

ACE

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2

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40

+5V

G

G +12V

R

L

G G

Audio cable

IDE cable

4-pin power connector

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