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Connectors
Floppy Disk Connector: FDC
This mainboard provides a standard floppy disk connector (FDC) that supports 360K, 720K, 1.2M,
1.44M and 2.88M floppy diskettes. This connector supports the floppy drive ribbon cables provided
in the packaging.
Hard Disk Connectors: IDE1-2、SATA1-2
This mainboard has a 32-bit Enhanced PCI IDE Controller that supports Ultra 6-0/ DMA 2-0 and
PIO 4-0 modes, Ultra ATA 133/ 100/ 66/ 33. It has two IDE connectors, IDE1 (primary) and IDE2
(secondary). The KM400A Series also has a Serial ATA controller and provides two serial ATA
connectors.
IDE1 (Primary IDE Connector)
You can connect up to two hard drives to IDE1. If you attach two drives, you must use a ribbon cable
with three connectors. You must also configure one drive as the master and one drive as the slave,
using the jumpers located on each drive.
IDE2 (Secondary IDE Connector)
The IDE2 controller can also support a Master and a Slave drive. The configuration is similar to
IDE1. The second drive on this controller must be set to slave mode.
SATA1/ SATA2
The SATA connectors support transfer rate to 150 MB/s and SATA RAID 0 or 1 mode. The
connectors only can connect one serial ATA hard disk device each. (for more detail pleas refer to the
Appendix II.)
SATA1
2
1
SATA2
IDE2
IDE1
IDE2
IDE1
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