User's Manual
Minix780G Series User's Manual
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2.5 Connecting Peripheral Devices
2.5.1 IDE Disk Drive Connectors
2.5.2 Serial ATA Connectors
Each SATA connector serves as one single channel to connect one SATA device by SATA cable.
2.5.3 PCI Express slots
PCIE1 is for PCI Express X4 slot.
Each of the IDE port connects up to two IDE
drives at Ultra ATA 133/100/66/33 mode by
one 40-pin, 80-conductor,and 3-connector Ultra
ATA/66 ribbon cables.
Connect the single end (blue connector) at the
longer length of ribbon cable to the IDE port of
this board, the other two ends (gray and black
connector) at the shorter length of the ribbon
cable to the connectors of your hard drives.
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before connecting two drives by one single ribbon cable.
The red line on the ribbon cable must be aligned with
pin-1 on both the IDE port and the hard-drive connector.