Connectors - Albatron K8NF4 Series User Manual

Connectors

Floppy Disk Connector: FDC
The 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/ IDE2、SATA1/ 2/ 3/ 4
The mainboard has two 32-bit Enhanced PCI IDE Controllers that support Ultra ATA 66, Ultra ATA
100 and Ultra ATA 133. It has two HDD connectors, IDE1 and IDE2. The mainboard also has four
Serial ATA (150MB/sec) connectors or Serial ATA2 (300MB/sec) connectors that both support
SATA RAID 0/ 1/ 0+1/ JBOD.
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.
SATA1/ SATA2/ SATA3/ SATA4
The SATA or SATA2 connectors support transfer rate up to 150MB/sec or 300 MB/sec, and
support SATA RAID 0/ 1/ 0+1/ JBOD mode for both. The connectors only can connect one serial
ATA hard disk device of each.
This mainboard supports SATA RAID 0/ 1 / 0+1 / JBOD.
See appendix Ⅱ for more information.
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