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Locate the red stripe on the cable and connect to the device with the red stripe lining up to pin #1 and If there is also no red stripe locate the blue stripe on the cable and connect to the device with the blue stripe lining up to pin #1
The red stripe marks pin one, which ensures the ribbon cable is pushed into the socket the correct way round.
the pata cable has the colors of the rainbow such as blue and red.
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Usually an arrow pointing to it, or a number 1 on the connector. It's also on the side with the red wire. And most boards are keyed with a slot on the side of the female part, and extrusion on the male connector... so it can only be inserted the proper way.
On each motherboard, you will find 2 IDE ports. These ports are for your hard drives, and CD ROM's. On the back of every hard drive, you will find a jumper, together with different settings, for use of the drive being a master, slave or cable select. You adjust these jumpers for placement on the ide cable. Eg being, your main hard drive (80gb), place the jumper for this on to the master setting. Then place this drive at the end of the ide cable. Your second drive (500gb), change the jumper to slave, and place this at the middle of the ide cable). Every ide cable, has a red line down one side of it. This red line shows you which way the cable should be positioned on the drive. The red line always goes to the right. Then on the molex power connector, you will find, 1 yellow, 2 black, and 1 red wire. These can only be plugged into the drive one way round. (You match the red wire facing the red on the ide cable). If the hard drives in question, are SATA or SATA II, then there is no master or slave connector, and they just plug direct into the ports on the drive, and on the board. Hope this helps Be safe Cadishead Computers
Pin 1 on a ribbon cable is usually colored differently than the other pins. It is often red.
Red Stripe was created in 1928.
This is a flag to indicate to all boaters that a free diver is operating underwater in the area
Older hard drives typically used a flat ribbon cable, known as an "IDE" or "ATA" cable. Modern SATA drives use a thick but narrow cable, usually red in color.
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The red edge of a 40-pin ribbon cable is connected to pin one on the IDE hard drive. If you fail to do so correctly, it may result in the hard drive being completely unable to communicate with your system.