Installing a hard disk drive/cd-rom drive – Elitegroup EZ-Buddie2 D21 I4-3 Manual User Manual

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Installing a Hard Disk Drive/CD-ROM Drive

This section describes how to install IDE devices such as a hard disk drive
and a CD-ROM drive.

Your motherboard has a primary and secondary IDE channel interface (IDE1 and
IDE2). An IDE ribbon cable supporting two IDE devices is bundled with the moth-
erboard.

If you want to install more than two IDE devices, get a second IDE cable and
you can add two more devices to the secondary IDE channel.

IDE1: Primary IDE Connector

The first hard drive should always be connected to IDE1.

IDE2: Secondary IDE

The second drive on this controller must be set to slave mode. The configura-
tion is the same as IDE1.

You must orient the cable connector so that the pin 1 (color) edge of the
cable corresponds to the pin 1 of the I/O port connector.

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