User`s guide

Motherboard User’s Guide

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

FLOPPY.

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. If you connect two devices to a single cable, you must configure one of

the drives as Master and one of the drives as Slave. The documentation of the

IDE device will tell you how to configure the device as a Master or Slave device.

The Master device connects to the end of the cable.

Install the device(s) and connect power from the system power supply. Use the

cable provided to connect the device(s) to the Primary IDE channel connector

IDE1 on the motherboard.

If you want to install more IDE devices, you can purchase a second IDE cable

and connect one or two devices to the Secondary IDE channel connector IDE2

on the motherboard. If you have two devices on the cable, one must be Master

and one must be Slave.

Install Other Devices

Install and connect any other devices in the system following the steps below.

IDE2 IDE1

FLOPPY