How to Attach Cables

1. Adhere to all handling precautions. Poor handling, physical impact or electrical shock cause most premature hard disk drive failures.
2. Attach the blue connector of the ATA IDE cable to the IDE connector marked "Primary" or "0" on the motherboard or controller card in your system.
3. Attach a power cable to the hard disk drive.
4. If the Deskstar drive is the Device 0 (master) drive, attach the black connector of the ATA/IDE cable to the hard disk drive. If the Deskstar drive is the Device 1 (slave) drive, attach the gray connector of the ATA/IDE cable to the hard disk drive.

   Note: In some system cases, it may be easier to attach the cables after the drive is mounted in the system.