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P4D/P4D-N Motherboard
User’s Manual
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IDE Drive Positioning
Normally the system’s primary hard disk drive should
be in the Primary Master position. If you will use only
the supplied ribbon cable, connect a CD-ROM drive to
the Primary Slave position.
If you obtain an additional IDE ribbon cable, you can
install a second hard disk drive in the Primary Slave po-
sition and install the CD-ROM as the Secondary Master.
This is a good idea if the CD-ROM drive uses a slower
data transfer mode than the hard disk drive.
Follow any instructions that come with the drives to con-
figure and install them. IDE devices generally can be set
to one of three operation modes:
• Master
• Slave
• Cable Select
Many drives come set to the Master setting. If you will
use the drive in a Slave position, you must reconfigure it
as either Slave or use the Cable Select setting to allow the
drives position on the cable to define the mode.
Connecting a Floppy Disk Drive
This motherboard has one Floppy Drive connector for
connecting one or two floppy disk drives. Most computer
systems use one 3.5-inch 1.44MB floppy disk drive. The
drive connector is for a standard floppy drive ribbon cable.
To install a floppy disk drive, connect the drive to the
end of the cable, which is the Drive A: position. Plug the
other end of the cable into the floppy disk drive connec-
tor on the motherboard.