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Intel 945 Series User's Manual
2.5 Connecting Peripheral Devices
2.5.1 Floppy and IDE Disk Drive Connectors
The FDD connector connects up to two floppy drives with a 34-wire, 2-connector floppy
cable.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.
2.5.2 Serial ATA Connectors
Each SATA connector serves as one single channel to connect one SATA device by SATA
cable.
2.5.3 PCI and PCI Express slots
Install PCI Express X16 graphics card into slot “PCIE1”.
Install PCI card into slots “PCI1” or “PCI2”.
Each of the IDE port connects up to two
IDE drives at Ultra ATA/100 mode by one
40-pin, 80-conductor,and 3-connector Ultra
ATA/66 ribbon cables.
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.
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.
The red line on the ribbon cable must be aligned with pin-1 on both the FDD port and the floppy connector.