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If you want to install more IDE devices, you can purchase a second
IDE cable and connect one or two devices to the Secondary IDE
channel connector
IDE2
on the mainboard. If you have two
devices on the cable, one must be Master and one must be Slave.
Serial ATA Devices
The
Serial ATA (Advanced Technology Attachment)
is the
standard interface for the IDE hard drives, which is designed to
overcome the design limitations while enabling the storage
interface to scale with the growing media rate demands of PC
platforms. It provides you a faster transfer rate of
150 Mbytes/
second
. If you have installed a Serial ATA hard drive, you can
connect the Serial ATA cables to the Serial ATA hard drive or the
connecter on the mainboard.
On the mainboard, locate the Serial ATA connectors
SATA1/2
,
which support new Serial ATA devices for the highest data transfer
rates, simpler disk drive cabling and easier PC assembly.
It eliminates limitations of the current Parallel ATA interface, but
maintains register compatib ility and software compatibility with
Parallel ATA.
Internal Sound Connections
If you have installed a CD-ROM drive or DVD-ROM drive, you
can connect the drive audio cable to the onboard sound system.
When you first start up your system, the BIOS should
automatically detect your CD-ROM/DVD drive. If it doesn’t, enter
the Setup Utility and configure the CD-ROM/DVD drive that you
have installed. On the mainboard, locate the 4-pin connector
CD1
.
CD1
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