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Internal Peripherals Connectors
Enhanced IDE, Floppy Connectors
The mainboard features two 40-pin dual-channel IDE device connectors (IDE1/
IDE2) providing support for up to four IDE devices, such as CD-ROM and Hard
Disk Drives (H.D.D.). This mainboard also includes one 34-pin floppy disk
controller (FDC) to accommodate the Floppy Disk Drive (FDD). Moreover, this
mainboard comes with one 80-pin ATA 100/66/33 ribbon cable to connect
to IDE H.D.D. and one 34-pin ribbon cable for F.D.D. connection.
Serial ATA Connectors
The Serial ATA is an enolutionary replacement for the Parallel ATA physical
storge interface. Serial ATA is scalable and will allow future enhancements to
the computing platform. The Serial ATA supports all ATA and ATAPI device,
including CDs, DVDs, tapes devices, high capacity removeable devices, zip
drivers, and CDRW's. The Serial ATA interface supports data transfer rates up
to 150MB/s.
Important: Ribbon cables are di-
rectional, 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.
D1
D2
1
IDE1
1
IDE2
1
FD
D
Serial ATA
SATA1
SATA2
