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Flash BIOS
The Mainboard flash BIOS provides users with more flexibility
in upgrading their mainboards. The flash BIOS can be easily
reprogrammed by a flash utility software.
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Floppy Drive Header
The Mainboard provides a 34-pin connector that supports the
included floppy drive ribbon cable. After connecting the single
end to the on-board “FLOPPY” connector, connect the remain-
ing plugs on the other end of the cable to the corresponding
floppy drives.
NOTE: Pin 5 is removed to prevent inserting the connector in
the wrong orientation.
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IDE Device Connector
The Mainboard provides (2) independent bus-mastering PCI
IDE interfaces capable of supporting up to Mode 4 and Ultra
DMA-33/66/100 devices. The system BIOS supports automatic
detection of the IDE device data transfer rate and translation
between different kinds of device modes such as Logical Block
Addressing (LBA), Extended Cylinder Sector Head (ECSH)
translation modes and ATAPI (e.g., CD-ROM) devices on both
IDE interfaces.
The two on-board IDE connectors support the provided 80-pin
IDE hard disk ribbon cables. After connecting the single end
to the mainboard connector, connect the two remaining plugs
to your hard disk(s) and/or CD-ROM drive(s). If you attach two
hard disks and/or CD-Rom drives to the same IDE connector,
you must configure the drives by setting their IDE master/slave
jumpers according to the documentation for those devices.
Also, you may connect the two hard disk drives so that both
become Masters, using one ribbon cable on the primary IDE
connector and one on the secondary IDE connector.
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