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How an IDE Hard Drive Works

IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) hard drives are the most common hard

drives and are the most likely to be installed on your system. IDE devices

have most of the electronics or “smarts” built into the drive, rather than

installed on a separate controller card or on the motherboard. IDE hard

drives have two main connections – a ribbon cable called the data cable

and a power connection to the power supply. The ribbon cable attaches to

the back of the drive and connects to the IDE controller port J7 or J8 on

the mainboard. Whenever connecting or disconnecting the ribbon cable,

be sure to attach the data cable so the red stripe points toward pin 1 on the

connector.

Most drives also have configuration jumpers at the back of the drive for

setting drive identification and resistors. See your hard drive user’s guide

for complete information.

Front of

Computer

Keyboard

Connector

Parallel

Port

Red Stripe

(pin 1)

Floppy

Connector

Secondary

IDE Hard

Drive

Header

Chapter 4 - Expanding Your System

Primary

IDE Hard

Drive

Header

System RAM

SIMM Sockets

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