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6. Serial ATA Supported
The Serial ATA specification is designed to overcome speed limitations while enabling the
storage interface to scale with the growing media rate demands of PC platforms. This
motherboard comes with integrated Serial ATA controller in chip, aiming to provide you an
even faster transfer rate of 150 Mbytes/second and 300M/bs, 600M/bs to come.
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
SATA port 1 (ICH5)
SATA port 2 (ICH5)
Serial ATA Ports
Note: Please note that only under
Windows XP and Windows.Net
environment can you install the
total of 2 Parallel ATA and 2 Serial
ATA disks.
8. Connecting IDE and Floppy Cables
Connect 34-pin floppy cable and 40-pin, 80-wire IDE cable to floppy connector FDD and
IDE connector. Be careful of the pin1 orientation. Wrong orientation may cause system
damage.
9. Front Panel Connector
Attach the power LED, speaker, and reset switch connectors to the
corresponding pins. If you enable "Suspend Mode" item in BIOS
Setup, the ACPI & Power LED will keep flashing while the system
is in suspend mode.
Locate the power switch cable from your ATX housing. It is 2-pin
female connector from the housing front panel. Plug this connector
to the soft-power switch connector marked SPWR.
Secondary
Secondary
Slave (4th)
Master (3rd)
IDE 2 (Secondary)
IDE 1 (Primary)
Pin 1
Primary
Primary
Master (1st)
Slave (2nd)
ATA 33/66/100 IDE Connector
Pin 1
FDD Connector
1
ACPI & PWR
IDE LED
LED
ACPILED
(Blue)
Speaker
1
NC
5VSB
NC
SPWR
+5V
ACPI LED-
IDE LED
GND
IDE LED
ACPILED
+5V
NC
+5V
ACPI_B
GND
GND
NC
RESET
SPEAKER
GND
SPWR
Reset
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