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Motherboard User’s Guide
Serial ATA Devices
The
Serial ATA (Advanced Technology Attachment)
is the
standard interface for the IDE hard drives, which is designed to
overcome the design limitations while enabling the storage inter-
face to scale with the growing media rate demands of PC plat-
forms. It provides you a faster transfer rate of
150 MB/s
. If you
have installed a Serial ATA hard drive, you can connect the Serial
ATA cables to the Serial ATA hard drive or the connecter on the
motherboard.
On the motherboard, locate the Serial ATA connectors
SATA1/2
,
which support new Serial ATA devices for the highest data
transfer rates, simpler disk drive cabling and easier PC assembly.
It eliminates limitations of the current Parallel ATA interface, but
maintains register compatibility and software compatibility with
Parallel ATA.
Analog Audio Input Header
If you have installed a CD-ROM drive or DVD-ROM drive, you
can connect the drive audio cable to the onboard sound system.
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