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Motherboard User’s Guide
Install Other Devices
Install and connect any other devices in the system following the steps below.
Floppy Disk Drive
The motherboard ships with a floppy disk drive cable that can support one or
two drives. Drives can be 3.5" or 5.25" wide, with capacities of 360K, 720K,
1.2MB, 1.44MB, or 2.88MB.
Install your drives and connect power from the system power supply. Use the
cable provided to connect the drives to the floppy disk drive connector
FDD1
.
IDE Devices
IDE devices include hard disk drives, high-density diskette drives, and CD-ROM
or DVD-ROM drives, among others.
The motherboard ships with an IDE cable that can support one or two IDE
devices.
IDE1
can support up to 2 IDE devices, data transporting in ATA-33/66/
100 mode.
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
FDD1
1
1
IDE2
1
IDE1
SATA1
SATA2
