2.5 Connecting Peripheral Devices
2.5.1 IDE Disk Drive Connectors
2.5.2 Serial ATA Connectors
The Serial ATA (SATA) connectors are used to connect Serial ATA drives. Connect one end
of the Serial ATA cable to a Serial ATA connector and the other end to your Serial ATA device.
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 100/66/33 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 congure 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.
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