Supermicro P4SPA Plus - Connecting Game, Parallel, Floppy, and Hard Drive

Chapter 2: Installation
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2-8 Game Port, Parallel Port, Floppy Drive, Hard Drive
and AGP Connections
Use the following information to connect the fl oppy and hard disk drive cables.
• The fl oppy disk drive cable has seven twisted wires.
• A red mark on a wire typically designates the location of pin 1.
• A single fl oppy disk drive ribbon cable has 34 wires and two connectors to provide
for two fl oppy disk drives. The connector with twisted wires always connects
to drive A, and the connector that does not have twisted wires always connects
to drive B.
• The 80-wire ATA100/66 IDE hard disk drive cable that came with your system
has two connectors to support two drives. This special cable should be used
to take advantage of the speed this new technology offers. The blue connector
connects to the onboard IDE connector interface and the other connector(s) to
your hard drive(s). Consult the documentation that came with your disk drive
for details on actual jumper locations and settings for the hard disk drive.
Parallel Port Connector
The parallel port is located at J4. Re-
fer to Figure 2-3 for location. See the
table on the right for pin defi nitions.
Pin Number Function
1 Strobe-
3 Data Bit 0
5 Data Bit 1
7 Data Bit 2
9 Data Bit 3
11 Data Bit 4
13 Data Bit 5
15 Data Bit 6
17 Data Bit 7
19 ACK
21 BUSY
23 PE
25 SLCT
Pin Number Function
2 Auto Feed-
4 Error-
6 Init-
8 SLCT IN-
10 GND
12 GND
14 GND
16 GND
18 GND
20 GND
22 GND
24 GND
26 NC
Parallel (Printer) Port Pin Definitions
(J4)
Game Port Header
There is a game port header on the
motherboard. See the table on the
right for pin defi nitions.
Pin Number Function
1
+5V fused
3
GP0 (JSX1R)
5
Ground
7
GP5 (JSBUT1)
9
+5V fused
11 GP2 (JSX2R)
13 GP3 (JSY2R)
15
MIDI-INR
Pin Number
Function
2
GP4 (JSBUTO)
4
Ground
6
GP1 (JSY1R)
8
+5V fused
10
GP6 (JSBUT2)
12
MIDI-OUTR
14
GP7 (JSBUT3)
Game Port Header Pin
Definitions
(GAME PORT Header)