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Chapter 2: Motherboard Installation
Install your drives and connect power from the system power supply. Use the
cable provided to connect the drives to the floppy disk drive connector
FDC1
.
IDE Devices
IDE devices include hard disk drives, high-density diskette drives, and CD-ROM
or DVD-ROM drives, among others.
The motherboard ships with an IDE cable that can support one or two IDE
devices.
IDE1
can support up to 2 IDE devices, data transporting in ATA-66/
100 mode.
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 MB/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 connecter on the motherboard.
On the motherboard, locate the Serial ATA connectors
SATA1-4
, 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.
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