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Installing the Motherboard
Installing a Hard Disk Drive/CD-ROM/SATA Hard Drive
This section describes how to install IDE devices such as a hard disk drive and a CD-
ROM drive.
About IDE Devices
Your motherboard has one IDE channel interface.
IDE: IDE Connector
This motherboard supports two high data transfer SATA ports with each runs up to
3.0 Gb/s. To get better system performance, we recommend users connect the CD-
ROM to the IDE channel, and set up the hard drives on the SATA ports.
IDE devices enclose jumpers or switches used to set the IDE device as MASTER or
SLAVE. Refer to the IDE device user’s manual. Installing two IDE devices on one
cable, ensure that one device is set to MASTER and the other device is set to SLAVE.
The documentation of your IDE device explains how to do this.
LPT: Onboard parallel port header
This is a header that can be used to connect to the printer, scanner or other devices.
1
STROBE
14
AFD
2
PD0
15
ERROR
3
PD1
16
INIT
4
PD2
17
SLCTIN
5
PD3
18
Ground
6
PD4
19
Ground
7
PD5
20
Ground
Pin Signal Name Pin Signal Name
8
PD6
21
Ground
9
PD7
22
Ground
10
ACK
23
Ground
11
BUSK
24
Ground
12
PE
25
Ground
13
SLCT
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