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Running head: OPTICAL DRIVE INSTALL 1 Installing An Optical Drive Daniel Bevan Bellevue University September 29 2019

OPTICAL DRIVE INSTALL 2 Installing An Optical Drive Before installing an optical drive, it is first important to identify the different types of interface available on the motherboard that are available to connect to the device. Most systems that would be encountered today would have either SCSI, PATA(IDE), SATA, or USB. CD-RW drives have been made with all the previously mentioned interfaces. DVD-RW drives were made with PATA, SATA, and USB. BD-R drives were made with SATA and USB interfaces. Devices that connect via USB are typically external drives, that are often plug-and-play devices, all the other types on interface are intended to work within internal drives. When trying to add a drive to a laptop it is best to opt for an external drive due to the differences in design of laptops, and the difficulty in finding a drive that will match both the housing, if there is an aperture for a drive at all (many modern laptops do not have optical drives). Newer drives are backwards compatible, and therefore, a DVD-RW can read and write CD’s also. A BD-R drive and read/write both DVD’s and CD’s. Since SCSI drives are rare, this paper will focus on SATA and PATA drives. The next component to look at inside the desktop computer is the power supply. Devices that use either of these interfaces have unique power ports and are not compatible with each other. Many older power supplies will not have a 15-pin power connector that will work with a SATA drive. Newer power supplies however, still often come with connectors for both drive types. For PATA devices have two connectors that need to be connected to them, to function, a 4-pin d-shaped power connector and a standard PATA cable. PATA devices are sometimes connected in parallel. Before making any changes to computer hardware, the system needs to be powered off completely (unplugged) to prevent against damage to the motherboard and the drive. If there is another device, such as a hard drive connected to the cable, it is recommended that this

OPTICAL DRIVE INSTALL 3 drive is plugged into the middle connector and set as master on the jumper pins on the back of the device. The optical drive would then be set as slave on the selector jumper pins, inserted into an empty drive bay, and plugged into the last connector on the cable. If the optical drive is the only device on the cable, it can be plugged into either connector on the PATA cable and can be set as master on the jumper pins. Once this is done, locate a spare power connector (already attached to the power supply) and plug it into the back of the optical drive. The system is now ready to be booted up. SATA drives can technically be installed ‘hot’ while the system is running, however it would still be a recommendation to power down the system and unplug it, to protect against electric shock. These devices also have both a data interface and a power interface port. SATA drives however are not connected in parallel and only have one device per cable. This makes installing this drive a little simpler as they do not need jumpers on the back of the drive to help determine its function. Find an available slot to install the drive, preferably with an empty slot between it and the hard drive (to aid cooling of the hard drive) and connect the SATA cable to the motherboard and the drive, followed by the power connector. The system can then be powered on. The system BIOS will generally recognize the device immediately upon boot up, and once the operating system has loaded, the drive should be visible and, in many cases, will be labelled as the D: or E: drive depending upon how many hard drives or hard disk partitions exist.

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