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Connecting IDE Hard Disk Drives
The IDE connector supports Ultra ATA 133/100/66 IDE hard disk drives.
1.Connect the blue connector (the cable end with a single connector) to the motherboard.
2.Connect the black connector (the cable with the two closely spaced black and gray connectors) to the Ultra ATA master device.
3.Connect the gray connector to a slave device.
If you install two hard disk drives, you must configure the second drive as a slave device by setting its jumper accordingly. Refer to the hard disk documentation for the jumper settings.
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v Pin Assignments
Connector | Pin | Signal | Pin | Signal |
| 1 | Reset IDE | 2 | GND |
| 3 | Host Data 7 | 4 | Host Data 8 |
| 5 | Host Data 6 | 6 | Host Data 9 |
| 7 | Host Data 5 | 8 | Host Data 10 |
| 9 | Host Data 4 | 10 | Host Data 11 |
| 11 | Host Data 3 | 12 | Host Data 12 |
| 13 | Host Data 2 | 14 | Host Data 13 |
| 15 | Host Data 1 | 16 | Host Data 14 |
| 17 | Host Data 0 | 18 | Host Data 15 |
| 19 | GND | 20 | |
| 21 | DRQ 1 | 22 | GND |
| 23 | Host IOW | 24 | GND |
| 25 | Host IOR | 26 | GND |
| 27 | IOCHRDY | 28 | Host ALE |
| 29 | DACK 1 | 30 | Ground |
| 31 | IRQ 15 | 32 | NC |
| 33 | Address 1 | 34 | Ground |
| 35 | Address 0 | 36 | Address 2 |
| 37 | Chip Select 0 | 38 | Chip Select 1 |
| 39 | Activity | 40 | GND |