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1.7 Connecting Peripheral Devices
1.7.1 Floppy and IDE Disk Drive Connectors
Connect the single end at the longer length of ribbon cable to the FDD
on the board, the two connectors on the other end to the floppy disk
drives connector. Generally you need only one floppy disk drive in your
system.
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The red line on the ribbon cable must be aligned with pin-1 on both
the FDD port and the floppy connector.
Connect the single end (blue connector) at the longer length of ribbon
cable to the IDE port of this board, the other two ends (gray and black
connector) at the shorter length of the ribbon cable to the connectors
of your hard drives.
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Make sure to configure the “Master”
and “Slave” relation before connecting
two drives by one single ribbon cable.
The red line on the ribbon cable must
be aligned with pin-1 on both the IDE
port and the hard-drive connector.
1.7.2 Serial ATA Connectors
Each SATA connector serves as one single channel to connect one SATA
device by SATA cable.
To connect SATA device:
1. Attach either end of the signal cable to the SATA connector on
motherboard. Attach the other end to the SATA device.
2. Attach the SATA power cable to the SATA device and connect the
other end from the power supply.
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The motherboard in this photo is served for DEMO only, and may not
be the same type or model as the one described in this manual.
