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6. Serial ATA Supported
This motherboard comes with a Promise Serial ATA (PDC20375) controller, aiming to provide
you an even faster transfer rate of 150 Mbytes/second. The traditional parallel ATA
specification has defined the standard storage interface for PCs with its original speed of just
3 Mbytes/second since the protocol was introduced in the 1980s. And the latest generation
of the interface, Ultra ATA-133, has been developed further with a burst data transfer rate of
133 Mbytes/second. Please be noted that Hot-Plug in is not allowed.
7. Connecting Serial ATA Disk
To connect a Serial ATA disk, you have to have a 7-pin serial ATA cable. Connect two ends
of the serial ATA cable to the serial ATA header on the motherboard and the disk. Like every
other traditional disk, you also have to connect a power cable. Please be noted that it is a
jumper free implement; you don't need to set jumpers to define a master or slave disk.
When connecting two serial ATA disks, the system will automatically take the one connected
to "Serial ATA 1" header as a master disk.
Serial ATA cable
Serial ATA Controller
Serial ATA Connectors
8. Connecting IDE and Floppy Cables
Connect 34-pin floppy cable and 40-pin, 80-wire IDE cable to floppy connector FDC and
IDE connector. Be careful of the pin1 orientation. Wrong orientation may cause system
damage.
Pin 1
IDE Connector
9. Die Hard BIOS (User Upgrade Optional)
Recently, many viruses have been found that they may destroy bios code and data area.
Therefore, this motherboard implements a very effective hardware protection method that
does not involve any software or BIOS coding, hence it is 100% virus free. You may restore
the originally mounted BIOS with BIOS 2 by setting JP30 to pin 2-3 if it fails to act normally.
This motherboard comes with one BIOS ROM, you may contact our local distributor or reseller
for purchasing the extra BIOS ROM. Please visit our website:
details.
BIOS 2
BIOS 1
(User Upgrade
Optional)
1
1
JP30
Normal
Rescue
(Default)
Primary
Primary
Slave (2nd)
Master (1st)
Pin 1
Secondary
Secondary
Master (3rd)
Slave (4th)
Pin 1
ATA 133
FDD Connector
http://english.aopen.com.tw/
IDE 1 (Primary)
IDE 2 (Secondary)
ATA 33/66/100
IDE Connector
for
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