Gateway E-4400 Benutzerhandbuch

Preparing to replace or add a drive          

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If only one drive is attached to a controller cable, configure the drive as 
single if it is a hard drive or master if it is a CD drive. If two drives of 
any type are attached to the cable, configure one as master and one as 
slave.

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You may need to configure the drives you install using the BIOS Setup 
utility program. Press F1 at start up to access the BIOS Setup utility 
program.

Three drive cables are included with your system. The diskette drive connector 
cable is used to connect diskette drives and other non-IDE devices such as 
tape backup drives. The two IDE connector cables are used to connect IDE 
devices such as CD drives and hard drives.

If you want to add additional drives, you can replace the drive connector 
cables with ones that contain three connectors, which would let you add a 
total of four IDE devices or two diskette drives.

If you choose to buy another IDE or SCSI hard drive, you 
must also buy the appropriate IDE or SCSI controller card.

Diskette Drive 
Connector Cable

IDE Connector Cables (two cables)

To floppy

connector on

riser card

To diskette

drive that

came with

your system

Black to connector 
on IDE drive

80 wire cable

40 wire cable

Black to 
secondary 
IDE connector 
on riser card

Blue to 
primary IDE 
connector 
on riser 
card

Black to connector 
on CD drive