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PC Hardware in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition
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PC Hardware in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

by Robert Bruce Thompson, Barbara Fritchman Thompson
July 2003
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
874 pages
38h 13m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Installing an SATA Hard Disk

Installing an SATA hard disk is much easier than installing a PATA model because there are no Master/Slave issues or DMA configuration steps to worry about. You simply secure the drive to the chassis and connect the signal and power cables. Most systems recognize an SATA drive and configure it automatically. If the system doesn’t detect the drive automatically, you may need to use BIOS Setup to force detection. The following sections describe the steps necessary to install an SATA drive.

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