Other Devices Installation; Expansion Slots Installation - ECS P4ITA2 Manual

Other Devices Installation

Floppy Diskette Drive Installation
The mainboard has a floppy diskette drive (FDD) interface ships with
a diskette drive ribbon cable that supports one or two floppy diskette
drives. You can install a 5.25-inch drive and a 3.5-inch drive with
various capacities. The floppy diskette drive cable has one type of
connector for a 5.25-inch drive and another type of connector for a
3.5-inch drive.
IDE Devices
Your mainboard has a primary and secondary IDE channel interface
(IDE1 and IDE2). An IDE ribbon cable supporting two IDE devices is
bundled with the mainboard. IDE devices have jumpers or switches
that are used to set the IDE device as MASTER or SLAVE. Refer to
the IDE device user's manual.
If you want to install more than two IDE devices, get a second IDE
cable and you can add two more devices to the secondary IDE channel.
When installing two IDE devices on one cable, ensure that one device
is set to MASTER and the other device is set to SLAVE.
This mainboard supports UltraDMA 33/66/100. UDMA is a technol-
ogy that accelerates the performance of devices in the IDE channel.
Install IDE devices that support UDMA and use IDE cables that sup-
port UDMA for better performance.

Expansion Slots Installation

This mainboard has five 32-bit PCI (Peripheral Components Intercon-
nect) expansion slots, one 4xAGP slot, and one Communications and
Networking Riser (CNR) slot.
PCI Slots
PCI slots are used to install expansion cards that have the
32-bit PCI interface.
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