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Chapter 1
Hardware
FIGURE 1.17 Master/slave jumpers
Single drive
(standard installation)
For two drives
Drive 1:
master
Drive 2:
slave
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Most BIOS Setup programs today support Plug and Play, so they detect the new drive
automatically at startup. If this doesn’t work, the drive may not be installed correctly, the
jumper settings may be wrong, or the BIOS Setup may have the IDE interface set to None
rather than Auto. Enter BIOS Setup, and find out. Setting the IDE interface to Auto and
then allowing the BIOS to detect the drive is usually all that is required.
In BIOS Setup for the drive, you might have the option of selecting a DMA or programmed
input/output (PIO) setting for the drive. Both are methods for improving drive performance by
allowing the drive to write directly to RAM, bypassing the CPU when possible. For modern
drives that support UltraDMA, neither of these settings is necessary or desirable.
Now that your drive is installed, you can proceed to partition and format it for the oper-
ating system you’ve chosen. Then, finally, you can install your operating system of choice.
For a Windows Vista, XP, or 2000 system, allow the Windows Setup program to par-
tition and format the drive, or use the Disk Management utility in Windows to perform
those tasks. To access Disk Management, from the Control Panel, choose Administrative
Tools and then choose Computer Management.
Hard Disk System Problems
Hard disk system problems usually stem from one of three causes:
The adapter (that is, the IDE interface) is bad.
The disk is bad.
The adapter and disk are connected incorrectly.
The first and last causes are easy to identify, because in either case the symptom will be
obvious: the drive won’t work. You won’t be able to get the computer to communicate with
the disk drive.
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