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* A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining your PC, 6e Summary (continued) Parallel ATA (or EIDE): allows connection of up to 4 devices Serial ATA (SATA): specifies one cable per device SCSI group: allow up to 7 or 15 physical devices and multiple logical devices per physical device Other drive interface standards: USB, FireWire, Fibre Channel Newly installed hard drives are usually automatically detected by BIOS * * * * * A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining your PC, 6e Configuring parallel ATA drives Each of two IDE connectors supports an IDE channel Primary/secondary channels each support two devices EIDE devices: hard drive, DVD, CD and Zip drives Devices in each channel configured as master/slave Designate master/slave: jumpers, DIP switches, cable Configuring serial ATA drives One ATA cable supports one drive (no master/slave) Use an ATA controller card in two circumstances: IDE connector not functioning or standard not supported The ATA Interface Standards (continued) * A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining your PC, 6e Figure 8-22 A motherboard has two IDE channels; each can support a master and slave drive using a single EIDE cable * A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining your PC, 6e Figure 8-25 Rear of a serial ATA drive and a parallel ATA drive * A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining your PC, 6e SCSI Technology Small Computer System Interface standards For system bus to peripheral device communication Support either 7 or 15 devices (depends on standard) Provide for better performance than ATA standards The SCSI subsystem SCSI controller types: embedded or host adapter Host adapter supports internal and external devices Daisy chain: combination of host adapter and devices Each device on bus assigned SCSI ID (0 - 15) A physical device can embed multiple logical devices * A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining your PC, 6e Figure 8-28 Using a SCSI bus, a SCSI host adapter can support internal and external SCSI devices * A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining you