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Floppy Disk Drive Controller
The 586IHX system board has a built-in floppy disk controller that sup-
ports two standard floppy disk drives. You can install any 360KB,
720KB, 1.2MB, 1.44MB, or 2.88MB floppy disk drive.
Connecting the Floppy Disk Cable
1. Install the 34-pin floppy disk cable header into the floppy disk con-
nector (J6) on the system board. The colored edge of the ribbon
should be aligned with pin 1 of connector J6.
2. Install the other 34-pin header connector(s) into the disk drive(s).
Align the colored edge of the daisy chained ribbon cable with pin 1
of the drive edge connector(s). The end-most connector should be
attached to the drive you want to designate as Drive A.
IDE Hard Disk Interface
The 586IHX system board is equipped with two PCI IDE shrouded
headers that will interface four Enhanced IDE (Integrated Drive Elec-
tronics) hard disk drives.
Note:
Only Enhanced IDE hard drives or ATAPI CD-ROMs can be connected
to the IDE interface.
Connecting the IDE Hard Disk Interface
To prevent improper IDE cable installation, each PCI IDE shrouded
header has a keying mechanism. The 40-pin connector on the IDE
cable can be placed into the header only if pin 1 of the connector is
aligned with pin 1 of the header.
