Other Devices Installation
Floppy Diskette Drive Installation
The mainboard has a floppy diskette drive (FDD) interface and
ships with a diskette drive ribbon cable that supports one or two
floppy diskette drives. You can install a 5.25-inch drive and a 3.5-
inch drive with various capacities. The floppy diskette drive cable
has one type of connector for a 5.25-inch drive and another type of
connector for a 3.5-inch drive.
IDE Devices
Your mainboard has a primary and secondary IDE channel
interface (IDE1 and IDE2). An IDE ribbon cable supporting two
IDE devices is bundled with the mainboard.
If you want to install more than two IDE devices, get a second IDE
cable and you can add two more devices to the secondary IDE
channel.
IDE devices have jumpers or switches to set the IDE device as
MASTER or SLAVE. When installing two IDE devices on
one
cable, ensure that one device is set to MASTER and the other one
to SLAVE.
This mainboard supports Ultra DMA 66/100/133. UDMA is a
technology to accelerate devices’ performance in the IDE channel.
To maximize performance, install IDE devices that support UDMA
and use 80-pin IDE cables supporting UDMA 66/100/133.
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