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Installing a Floppy Diskette Drive
The mainboard has a floppy diskette drive (FDD) interface
and ships with a diskette drive ribbon cable that supports one
or two floppy diskette drives. You can install a 5.25-inch drive
and a 3.5-inch drive with various capacities. The floppy disk-
ette drive cable has one type of connector for a 5.25-inch
drive and another type of connector for a 3.5-inch drive.
1. Install the FDD into the drive cage in your system case.
2. Plug the FDD cable into FDD1 (A).
Note:
Ribbon cable connectors are usually keyed so that
they can only be installed correctly on the device
connector. If the connector is not keyed, make sure
that you match the pin-1 side of the cable connector
with the pin-1 side of the device connector. Each
connector has the pin-1 side clearly marked. The
pin-1 side of each ribbon cable is always marked
with a colored stripe on the cable.
3. Plug the correct connector on the FDD cable for the
5.25-inch or 3.5-inch drive into the FDD connector (B).
4. Plug a power cable from the case power supply into
the power connector on the FDD (C).
When you first start up your system, go immediately to the
Setup Utility to configure the floppy diskette drives that you
have installed.