ECS Motherboard User Manual page 47

Chapter 2: Motherboard Installation
Floppy Disk Drive
The motherboard ships with a floppy disk drive cable that can
support one or two drives. Drives can be 3.5" or 5.25" wide, with
capacities of 360K, 720K, 1.2MB, 1.44MB, or 2.88MB.
Install your drives and connect power from the system power
supply. Use the cable provided to connect the drives to the floppy
disk drive connector FDC1.
IDE Devices
IDE devices include hard disk drives, high-density diskette drives,
and CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drives, among others.
The motherboard ships with an IDE cable that can support one or
two IDE devices. IDE1 can support up to 2 IDE devices, data
transporting in ATA-66/100 mode.
IDE2 and IDE3 (optional) can be used to set up a disk array
configuration, RAID 0,1,0+1 function, compatible with ATA-66/
100/133 specification and supporting up to 4 IDE drives.
This motherboard has 3 IDE channel interfaces. You may also set
up the IDE hard disks with the SATA hard disks on the SATA
RAID connectors to create a multi-RAID configuration.
Serial ATA Devices
The Serial ATA (Advanced Technology Attachment) is the
standard interface for the IDE hard drives, which is designed to
overcome the design limitations while enabling the storage inter-
face to scale with the growing media rate demands of PC plat-
forms. It provides you a faster transfer rate of 150 MB/s. If you
have installed a Serial ATA hard drive, you can connect the Serial
ATA cables to the Serial ATA hard drive or the connecter on the
motherboard.
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