User Guide

Hardware Installation
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FDC
2.3.10 IDE Hard Disk and CD ROM
This mainboard supports two 40 pin IDE connectors marked as
IDE1 and IDE2. IDE1 is also known as primary channel and IDE2
as secondary channel, each channel supports two IDE devices
that makes total of four devices.
In order to work together, the two devices on each channel must
be set differently to master and slave mode, either one can be
hard disk or CDROM. The setting as master or slave mode
depends on the jumper on your IDE device, please refer to your
hard disk and CDROM manual accordingly.
Connect your first IDE hard disk to master mode of the primary
channel. If you have second IDE device to install in your system,
connect it as slave mode on the same channel, and the third and
fourth device can be connected on secondary channel as master
and slave mode respectively.
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IDE2
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IDE1