Connectors - Albatron PM945GZ User Manual

Connectors

Floppy Disk Drive Connector: FDD1
The mainboard provides a standard floppy disk drive connector (FDD1) that supports 360KB/720KB/
1.2MB/1.44MB/2.88 MB floppy disk drives using a FDD ribbon cable.
Primary IDE Connector: IDE1
The mainboard provides one IDE connector that supports Ultra ATA 66/100 IDE devices. You can attach a
maximum of two IDE devices, such as hard disk drive (HDD), CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, etc. using an IDE
ribbon cable.
In general, two IDE devices can be attached onto one IDE connector. If you attach two IDE HDDs, you
must configure one drive as the master and the other one as the slave. In this case, one optical device i.e.,
CD-ROM, DVD-ROM...etc. should be attached to this connector as well.
Serial ATA II Connector: SATA1/2/3/4
The four SATA II connectors support 3 Gbps transmit rate, and one SATA connector only can attach one
SATA HDD of each time using SATA cables.
1
SATA1~4
Attention
The FDD/ IDE cable is designed and should be attached with a specific
direction. One edge of the cable will usually in color such as red, to
indicate that should line up with the header pin-1.
Pin Assignment
1 Ground
3 TX-
5 RX+
7 Ground
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Mainboard PM945GZ
Pin Assignment
2 TX+
4 Ground
6 RX-