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(13). IDE Connectors
This motherboard provides two IDE ports to connect up
to four IDE drives at Ultra DMA 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.
NF7/NF7-S/NF7-M:
NF7 Series