User`s guide

Motherboard User’s Guide

Install Other Devices

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

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 FDD.

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-33/66/

100 mode.

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 interface to scale with the growing media rate demands

of PC platforms. It provides you a faster transfer rate of 3.0 Gb/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.