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(16). IDE1/IDE2 and IDE3/IDE4 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 drive as “Primary Slave”. The first drive connected to
IDE2 is referred to as “Secondary Master” and the second drive as “Secondary Slave”.
Keep away from connecting one legacy slow speed drive, like CD-ROM, together with another hard drive
on the same IDE channel; this will drop your integral system performance.
IDE3 ~ IDE4 are extra devices controlled by a HighPoint HPT374 chipset. This bonus feature allows for
having regular Ultra ATA/133 devices ports, or a RAID array in the combination of RAID 0, RAID 1, or
RAID 0+1 mode.
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