Chapter 2 Installation Instructions
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Other Connectors
This motherboard includes connectors for FDD devices, IDE HDD devices,
Serial ATA devices, USB devices, IR module, and others.
FDD connector: FLOPPY
This motherboard includes a standard FDD connector, supporting 360 K, 720 K,
1.2 M, 1.44 M, and 2.88 M FDDs.
HDD connector: IDE
The connector supports the provided Ultra DMA 100/66/33 IDE hard disk
ribbon cable. Connect the cable’s blue connector to the IDE connector, then
connect the gray connector to the Ultra DMA 100/66/33 slave device (hard disk
drive) and the black connector to the Ultra DMA 100/66/33 master device.
Attention:
Ribbon cables are directional, therefore, make sure to always con-
nect with the cable on the same side as pin 1 of the IDE or FDD
connector on the motherboard.
