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3. HARDWARE SETUP
8) Floppy Disk Drive Connector (34-1pin FLOPPY)
This connector supports the provided floppy drive ribbon cable. After connect-
ing the single end to the board, connect the two plugs on the other end to the
floppy drives. (Pin 5 is removed to prevent inserting in the wrong orienta-
tion when using ribbon cables with pin 5 plugged).
P4B-LA Floppy Disk Drive Connector
9) Primary (Blue) / Secondary IDE Connectors (40-1 pin IDE1/IDE2)
These connectors support the provided UltraDMA/66 IDE hard disk ribbon cable.
Connect the cable's blue connector to the motherboard's primary
(recommended) or secondary IDE connector, and then connect the gray connec-
tor to your UltraDMA/66 slave device (hard disk drive) and the black connector
to your UltraDMA/66 master device. It is recommended that non-UltraDMA/66
devices be connected to the secondary IDE connector. If you install two hard
disks, you must configure the second drive to Slave mode by setting its jumper
accordingly. Refer to your hard disk documentation for the jumper
settings. BIOS now supports specific device bootup (See BIOS). (Pin 20 is re-
moved to prevent inserting in the wrong orientation when using ribbon cables
with pin 20 plugged). If you have more than two UltraDMA/66 devices, you
will need to purchase another UltraDMA/66 cable.
NOTE: The hole near the blue connector on the UltraDMA/66 cable is intentional.
TIP: You may configure two hard disks to be both Masters with two ribbon
cables – one for the primary IDE connector and another for the secondary IDE
connector. You may install one operating system on an IDE drive and another on
a SCSI drive and select the boot disk through BIOS.
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FLOPPY
NOTE: Orient the red markings on
the floppy ribbon cable to PIN 1.
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PIN 1
NOTE: Orient the red markings
(usually zigzag) on the IDE
ribbon cable to PIN 1.
PIN 1