SOYO SY-P4I845PE Connect cables, case wire, and power supply, IDE Device Installation HDD, CD-ROM

Hardware Installation SY-P4I845PE

Step 5 Connect cables, case wire, and power supply

A.IDE Device Installation (HDD, CD-ROM)

IDE2

Secondary

IDE

IDE1

Primary

IDE

Pin1

IDE 3

This Motherboard offers two primary and one secondary IDE device connectors (IDE1, IDE2), can support up to four high-speed Ultra DMA 33/66/100HDD or CD-ROM. IDE3 can support up to two high speed Ultra DMA 33/66/100/133 HDD.

Connect the blue end of the ATA66/100 flat cable to the IDE device (HDD or CD-ROM) and plug the other end to the primary (IDE1, IDE3) or secondary (IDE2) directionally keyed IDE connector on the Motherboard. You can also plug the serial ATA cable into the serial ATA connector or the mainboard instead of using the IDE3 master connector. The ATA66/100 cable is backward compatible with ATA33 HDDs.

This Motherboard can support up to 6 HDDs.

There are four HDD connectors (IDE1, IDE2, IDE3, Serial ATA) on motherboard. IDE3 is provided for IDE RAID or standard IDE function. Note that when Serial ATA is used no hard disk can be connected as IDE3 master.

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