Floppy Connector; Floppy Drive, Simlp, Serial Ata And Hard Disk Drive Connections - Supermicro Supero X8DAi User Manual

2-9 Floppy Drive, SIMLP, Serial ATA and Hard Disk Drive
Connections
Note the following when connecting 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.

Floppy Connector

The fl oppy connector is located close
to the Front Panel Control on the
motherboard. See the table on the
right for pin defi nitions.
Fan5
Fan6
JPW2 JPW3
P2 DIMM3A
P2 DIMM3B
P2 DIMM2A
P2 DIMM2B
P2 DIMM1A
P2 DIMM1B
X8DA3/i
CPU2
82573V
Slot6 PCI-E x16
LAN
CTRL
JI2C3
JPL1 1
JI2C4
Slot5 PCI 33MH
82573L
LAN
Slot4 PCI 33MH
CTRL
JI2C1
JI2C2
Slot3 PCI-E X16
JPI1
1394_2 1394_1
JBT1
1394
Slot2 PCI-E X4 CTRL
JC2
Battery
Slot1 PCI 33MH
CD1
USB6/7 USB4/5
Slot0 SIMLC
JUSB3 JUSB2
Pin#
1
3
5
7
9
11
13
15
17
19
21
23
25
27
29
31
33
J6
JPW1
Fan1
CPU1
Fan7/CPU1
SP1
P1 DIMM1B
LE1
P1 DIMM1A
P1 DIMM2B
P1 DIMM2A
P1 DIMM3B
P1 DIMM3A
Intel IOH-36D
(North Bridge)
LES2 LES1 J5
ICH10R
Intel
1068E
I-Button
South
SAS CTRL
Bridge T-SGPIO2 T-SGPIO1
I-SATA5 I-SATA3 I-SATA1
USB9 USB8
I-SATA4 I-SATA2 I-SATA0 JWD1
JL1 JPS1 JPS2
Fan4
2-31
Chapter 2: Installation
Floppy Drive Connector
Pin Defi nitions
Defi nition Pin #
Ground 2
Ground 4
Key 6
Ground 8
Ground 10
Ground 12
Ground 14
Ground 16
Ground 18
Ground 20
Ground 22
Ground 24
Ground 26
Ground 28
Ground 30
Ground 32
Ground 34
A. Floppy
A
Defi nition
FDHDIN
Reserved
FDEDIN
Index
Motor Enable
Drive Select B
Drive Select B
Motor Enable
DIR
STEP
Write Data
Write Gate
Track 00
Write Protect
Read Data
Side 1 Select
Diskette