M81E-X Series User’s Manual
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Step3: Install the FDD Device
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The motherboard has a floppy disk drive interface that will support one or two
floppy disk drives. The floppy disk drive ribbon cable has connectors for two 3.5”
wide disk drives.
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Follow the steps mentioned below to install the FDD device :
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Locate the FDC1 box header on the motherboard.
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FDC1-Connect one end of the 34-Pin ribbon cable that come with the drive to
the FDD header, and the other end of the cable to the FDC1 box header on
the motherboard. (Note: Each header has the Pin-1 side clearly marked. The
Pin-1 side of the each ribbon cable is always marked with a red stripe on the
cable.)
Master
Slave
Pin 1
FDC1
Rear of FDD Device
Red Stripe
Note : You must be use an 80-Pin ribbon cable is designed with a 40-Pin connector
for IDE Ultra DMA66 devices.
Primary IDE1
Secondary IDE2
Master
Slave
Master
Slave
Status 1
Primary Channel has
priority over the
Secondary Channel
HDD
C:
HDD
D:
Master has priority
over the slave
Devices
Status 2
HDD
C:
HDD
D:
HDD
HDD
E:
F:
Hard Disk Drives have
priority over the CD-
ROM Devices
Status 3
HDD
C:
E:
CD
F:
CD
HDD
D:
