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To start, the hard drive cable connects your hard drive to your motherboard. Its really simple.
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What is the main function of an Ethernet external hard drive?
The main function of the Ethernet external hard drive is to connect the internet between the modem and the computer. To be able to connect internet, you need an Ethernet cable.
How do you hook up hard drive to cable box?
You cannot hook up a hard drive directly to a cable box.
What is an eide cable?
The cable connects between the motherboard of the computer and the hard-drive or optical drive.
Does a drive bay device plug into the motherboard?
An internal hard-drive fits into a bay inside the computer's tower. A power cable from the power unit is plugged into the hard-drive. A data cable plugs the hard-drive into the motherboard.
How can you tell the difference between the hard drive data cable from the floppy drive data cable?
1. A floppy cable will almost always contain a small "twist" in it, in which a port of the wires are turned in reverse.2. A floppy cable has 34 pins. A PATA hard drive cable has 40 pins.
What is a hard drive function?
A Hard drive in a PC is used to store Operating System and software data so the PC will function.
If a CD drive and a hard drive are sharing ther same cable?
This is normal.
When a computer boots the hard disk is not recognized What are two possible causes of the problem?
1. The power cable is not connected to the hard drive. 2. The data cable is not connected to the hard drive. 3. The hard drive logic board has been damaged or is malfunctioning.
Can you use an ide hard drive cable on a pata hard drive?
yes. pata and ide are the same thing.
Does the hard drive contain the mother board?
No the hard drive is attached to the motherboard via a IDE/SATA cable
What is the function of cable select jumper setting?
The function of cable select jumper setting is to let the cable select which drive takes priority ("master") and which one comes after ("slave").
If a CD drive and a hard drive are sharing the same data cable in a computer system what type of connection is the CD drive using?
It is using the EIDE connection. The book says that if you have a hard drive and a CD that the hard drive should be the master and the CD will be the slave.
