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Installing Drives 9-13
8. Connect one of the device connectors on the EIDE cable to the 40-pin interface
connector on the back of the hard-disk drive (see Figure 9-12).
9. If the other end of the EIDE cable is not already connected, connect it to the IDE1
connector on the system board.
To locate the IDE1 connector, see Figure 8-1.
10. Replace the computer cover. Then reconnect your computer and peripherals to
their electrical outlets, and turn them on.
NOTE: After you remove and replace the cover, the chassis intrusion detector will
cause the following message to be displayed at the next system start-up:
ALERT! Cover was previously removed.
11. Insert a bootable diskette (such as the
Dell Diagnostics Diskette
) into drive A.
12. Enter the System Setup program, and update the appropriate Drive category
(0 or 1) under Drives: Primary.
See “Drives: Primary and Secondary” in Chapter 3.
EIDE
cable
power input connector
on drive
IDE1
connector
IDE2
connector
DC power cable
interface connector