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Internal Peripherals Connectors
Enhanced IDE, Floppy Connectors
The mainboard features two 40-pin dual-channel IDE device connectors
(IDE1/IDE2) providing support for up to four IDE devices, such as CD-ROM
and Hard Disk Drives (H.D.D.).
This mainboard also includes one 34-pin floppy disk controller (FDC) to
accommodate the Floppy Disk Drive (FDD). Moreover, this mainboard
comes with one 80-pin ATA 100/66/33 ribbon cable to connect to IDE
H.D.D. and one 34-pin ribbon cable for F.D.D. connection.
Serial ATA Connectors
The Serial ATA is an envolutionary replacement for the Parallel ATA physi-
cal storge interface. Serial ATA is scalable and will allow future enhance-
ments to the computing platform. The Serial ATA supports all ATA and
ATAPI device, including CDs, DVDs, tapes devices, high capacity remov-
able devices, zip drivers, and CDRW's. The Serial ATA interface supports
data transfer rates up to 150MB/s.
D1
Important:
Ribbon cables are
directional, there-
fore, make sure to
always connect
with the red cable
stripe on the same
side as pin #1 of
the IDE1/IDE2 or
FDC connector on
the mainboard.
D2
ID
E1
ID
E2
1
1
FL
P
1
1
1
1
SATA3
SATA4
1
1
SATA2
SATA1
