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Internal Peripherals Connectors
Enhanced IDE, Floppy Connectors
C1
The mainboard features one 40-pin dual-channel IDE device connectors (IDE1)
providing support for up to two IDE devices, such as CD-ROM and Hard Disk
Drives (H.D.D.). This mainboard also includes one 34-pin floppy disk control-
ler (FDC) to accommodate the Floppy Disk Drive (FDD). Moreover, this
mainboard comes with one 80-pin ATA 100/66/33 ribbon cable to connect
to IDE H.D.D. and one 34-pin ribbon cable for F.D.D. connection.
Important: Ribbon cables are di-
rectional, therefore, make sure to
always connect with the red cable
stripe on the same side as pin #1 of
the IDE1 or FDC connector on the
mainboard.
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Serial ATA Connectors
C2
The Serial ATA is an enolutionary replacement for the Parallel ATA physical
storge interface. Serial ATA is scalable and will allow future enhancements to
the computing platform. The Serial ATA interface supports data transfer rates
up to 150MB/s.
IDE1
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