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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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Cabling SATA Drives

Installing SATA hard disk drives is much easier than installing PATA

devices because there are no jumper settings to worry about at all, as SATA

supports only a single device per controller channel. Simply connect the

power and plug in the controller cable as shown in Figure 8-27—the OS

automatically detects the drive and it’s ready to go. The keying on SATA

controller and power cables makes it impossible to install either incorrectly.

Figure 8-27 Properly connected SATA cable

NOTE Some older SATA drives have jumpers, but they are used to

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