Connectors And Slots - Biostar I915P-A7 User Manual

2.4 C
ONNECTORS AND
FDD1: Floppy Disk Connector
The motherboard provides a standard floppy disk connector that supports
360K, 720K, 1.2M, 1.44M and 2.88M floppy disk types. This connector
supports the provided floppy drive ribbon cables.
IDE1/IDE2/IDE3: Hard Disk Connectors
(IDE2/IDE3 are optional.)
The motherboard has a 32-bit Enhanced PCI IDE Controller that provides
PIO Mode 0~5, Bus Master, and Ultra DMA 33/ 66/ 100 functionality. It has
two HDD connectors IDE1 (primary) and IDE2 (secondary).
The IDE connectors can connect a master and a slave drive, so you can
connect up to four hard disk drives. The first hard drive should always be
connected to IDE1.
PCI 1~PCI3: Peripheral Component Interconnect Slots
This motherboard is equipped with 3 standard PCI slots. PCI stands for
Peripheral Component Interconnect, and it is a bus standard for expansion
cards. This PCI slot is designated as 32 bits.
SATA1~SATA4: Serial ATA Connectors
The motherboard has a PCI to SATA Controller with 2 channels SATA
interface, it satisfies the SATA 1.0 spec and with transfer rate of 1.5Gb/s.
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I915P-A7
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LOTS
Pin Assignment
1 Ground
3 TX-
5 RX-
7 Ground
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Pin Assignment
2 TX+
4 Ground
6 RX+