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Internal Peripherals Connectors
Enhanced IDE and Floppy connectors
The mainboard features one 40-pin dual-channel IDE device connectors (IDE1)
providing support for up to two IDE devices, such as CD-ROM and Hard Disk
Drives (H.D.D.). This mainboard also includes one 34-pin floppy disk control-
ler (FDC) to accommodate the Floppy Disk Drive (FDD1). Moreover, this
mainboard comes with one 80-pin ATA 133/100/66/33 ribbon cable to con-
nect to IDE H.D.D. and one 34-pin ribbon cable for F.D.D. connection.
Serial ATA connectors (SATA1/SATA2)
The Serial ATA is an evolutionary re-
placement for the Parallel ATA physi-
cal storage interface. Serial ATA is scal-
able and will allow future enhance-
ments to the computing platform. The
Serial ATA supports all ATA and ATAPI
device, including CDs, DVDs, tape de-
vices, high capacity removable de-
vices, zip drivers, and CDRWs. The
Serial ATA interface supports data trans-
fer rates up to 150MB/s.
Important : Ribbon cables are directional, therefore, make sure to always
connect with the red cable stripe on the same side as pin #1 of
the IDE1/IDE2 or FDC connector on the mainboard.
SATA1
SATA2
1
FLP1
IDE1
1
D1
D2
