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Internal Peripherals Connectors
Enhanced IDE and 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 (FDD1) to ac-
commodate 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 evolutionary replacement
for the Parallel ATA physical storge interface.
Serial ATA is scalable and will allow future en-
hancements to the computing platform. The
Serial ATA supports all ATA and ATAPI device,
including CDs, DVDs, tapes devices, high ca-
pacity removeable devices, zip drivers, and
CDRW's.
The Serial ATA interface supports data transfer
rates up to 150MB/s.
D1
Important: Ribbon cables are directional, therefore, make sure to always
connect with the red cable.
D2
1
1
ID
E1
ID
E2
1
FL
P1
SATA1
SATA2
