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COMA is the 9-pin D-Subminiature mail connector. The On-board serial port
can be disabled through BIOS SETUP. Please refer to Chapter 3 “INTEGRATED
PERIPHERALS SETUP” section for more detail information.
COM1
COM2
(7) Floppy drive Connector (34-pin block): FDD
This connector supports the provided floppy drive ribbon cable. After connecting
the single plug end to motherboard, connect the two plugs at other end to the
floppy drives.
Pin 1
Floppy Drive Connector
(8) Primary IDE Connector (40-pin block): IDE1
This connector supports the provided IDE hard disk ribbon cable. After
connecting the single plug end to motherboard, connect the two plugs at other
end to your hard disk(s). If you install two hard disks, you must configure the
second drive to Slave mode by setting its jumpers accordingly. Please refer to the
documentation of your hard disk for the jumper settings.
Primary IDE Connector
Pin 1
(9) Secondary IDE Connector (40-pin block): IDE2
This connector connects to the next set of Master and Slave hard disks. Follow
the same procedure described for the primary IDE connector. You may also
configure two hard disks to be both Masters using one ribbon cable on the
primary IDE connector and another ribbon cable on the secondary IDE connector.
