Mainboard KX550
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Connectors
Floppy Disk Drive Connector: FDD
The mainboard provides a standard floppy disk drive connector (FDD) that supports 360KB/
720KB/ 1.2MB/ 1.44MB/ 2.88 MB floppy disk drives using a FDD ribbon cable.
Hard Disk Drive Connectors: IDE
The mainboard provides one IDE connector that supports Ultra ATA 133/ 100/ 66/ 33 IDE
devices. You can attach a maximum of two IDE devices, such as hard disk drive (HDD),
CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, etc. using IDE ribbon cables.
In general, two IDE devices can be attached onto one IDE connector. If you attach two IDE
HDD, you must configure one drive as the master and the other one as the slave.
Serial ATA II Connector:
SATA1/2/3/4/5/6
The six SATA II connectors support up to 3 Gbps data transfer
rates, and one SATA connector only can attach one SATA HDD of
each time using SATA cables.
This mainboard supports RAID 0/ 1/ 0+1 mode; refer Appendix II for
more information.
Attention
The FDD/ IDE cable is designed and should be attached with a
specific direction. One edge of the cable will usually in color such
as red, to indicate that should line up with the header pin-1.
