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Hardware Setup 2-11
(12). FDC1 Connector
There are 34 wires and two connectors on each floppy cable providing two floppy disk drives connection.
Connect the single end at the longer length of ribbon cable to this FDC1, and the two connectors on the
other end to the floppy disk drives. Generally you need only one floppy disk drive in your system.
Note: The red line on the ribbon cable should be aligned with pin 1 on this connector.
(13). IDE1 and IDE2 Connectors
This motherboard provides two IDE ports to connect up to four IDE drives at Ultra ATA/100 mode by
Ultra ATA/66 ribbon cables. Each cable has 40-pin 80-conductor and three connectors, providing two
hard drives connection with motherboard. Connect the single end (blue connector) at the longer length of
ribbon cable to the IDE port on motherboard, and the other two ends (gray and black connector) at the
shorter length of the ribbon cable to the connectors on hard drives.
If you want to connect two hard drives together through one IDE channel, you must configure the second
drive to Slave mode after the first Master drive. Please refer to the drives’ documentation for jumper
settings. The first drive connected to IDE1 is usually referred to as “Primary Master”, and the second
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