1. Brock, a new tech in your firm, informs you that the PC he’s working on can’t autodetect a hard drive he installed. He thinks the motherboard is broken. What’s the more likely problem here?

2. The second SATA hard drive on your company’s server has just died. You have a replacement drive, but it’s critical that the server remain up and functioning. What, if anything, can you do to resolve this problem and get the second drive replaced?

3. Sean would like to install four additional hard drives in his system. His motherboard has two IDE controllers and two SATA controllers. There is one SATA drive installed, and the optical drive is an IDE device. How would you configure Sean’s system?

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