
Reset -
1
2
Ground
D7
3
4
D8
D6
5
6
D9
D5
7
8
D10
D4
9
10 D11
D3 11
12 D12
D2 13
14 D13
D1 15
16 D14
D0 17
18 D15
Ground 19
20 Key (pin cut)
DRQ 21
22 Ground
IDEIOW- 23
24 Ground
IDEIOR- 25
26 Ground
IORDY 27
28 Ground
DACK- 29
30 Ground
IRQ14 31
32 Pulled low for 16-bit operation
A1 33
34 Not used
A0 35
36 A2
CS0- 37
38 CS1-
LED- 39
40 Ground
+5v 41
42 +5v
Ground 43
44 Not used
Connector J8 mates with Diamond Systems Corporation cable no. 698004, and may be used to connect up to two
IDE drives (hard disks, CD-ROMs, or flash disk modules). The 44-pin connector includes power and mates directly
with notebook drives and flash disk modules. To use a standard format hard disk or CD-ROM drive with a 40-pin
connector, an adapter PCB such as Diamond Systems CorporationACC-IDEEXT is required.
Note: Connector J8 supports only up to ATA-33 (UDMA-2). It does not support ATA-66 (UDMA-3
to 5) transfer modes.
External Battery (J9)
Connector J9 is used to connect an external battery for maintaining the Real-Time Clock and the CMOS settings
(BIOS settings for various system configurations). The battery voltage for this input should be 3-3.6VDC. The
current draw averages under 4µA at 3V.
Diamond Systems Corporation
Athena II User Manual
Page 24
Figure 9: J9 External Battery Connector (end view)