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Connectors and Ports
This section describes the system board connectors and ports.
Primary/Secondary IDE connectors
These connectors use the provided IDE hard disk ribbon cable (40-pin) for use with hard disk
or CD-ROM drives. When installing a hard disk drive, connect the IDE ribbon cable to the
IDE connector on the system board, and to the IDE connector on the drive. If you install two
hard disk drives, you must configure one drive to Master-in-a-dual-drive-system mode, and the
second drive to Slave mode, by setting the jumpers on each drive accordingly. Please refer to
the documentation for the hard disk drive(s), or to the hard disk drive’s label, for more
information.
When connecting a CD-ROM drive to the system board, connect it to the secondary IDE
connector using a second IDE ribbon cable.
Primary Connector
Secondary Connector
Floppy Disk Drive Connector
The 34-pin ribbon cable from the floppy disk drive connects to the floppy disk drive connector
on the system board.
Floppy Disk Drive Connector