Mercury KN6100M, User Manual

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Chapter 2: Motherboard Installation
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
3.0 Gb/s
. If you have installed a Serial ATA hard drive, you can connect
the Serial ATA cables to the Serial ATA hard drive or the connector on the
motherboard.
On the motherboard, 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 compatibility and software compatibility with Parallel ATA.
Analog Audio Input Header
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
motherboard, locate the 4-pin header
CD_IN
.
Here is a list of CD_IN pin assignments.
Pin Signal
1 CD IN L
2 GND
3 GND
4 CD IN R