ASRock 960GM-S3 FX manual Onboard Headers and Connectors, Serial ATA Sata, Data Cable

2.7 Onboard Headers and Connectors

Onboard headers and connectors are NOT jumpers. Do NOT place jumper caps over these headers and connectors. Placing jumper caps over the headers and connectors will cause permanent damage of the motherboard!

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Floppy Connector

(33-pin FLOPPY1)

(see p.2 No. 21)

the red-striped side to Pin1

Note: Make sure the red-striped side of the cable is plugged into Pin1 side of the connector.

Primary IDE connector (Blue) (39-pin IDE1, see p.2 No. 10)

connect the blue end	connect the black end
to the motherboard	to the IDE devices

80-conductor ATA 66/100/133 cable

Note: Please refer to the instruction of your IDE device vendor for the details.

Serial ATAII Connectors

(SATAII_1 (PORT 0):
see p.2, No. 17)
(SATAII_2 (PORT 1):		SATAII_3 SATAII_4
see p.2, No. 16)		(PORT 2) (PORT 3)
(SATAII_3 (PORT 2):
see p.2, No. 13)	SATAII_1	SATAII_2
(SATAII_4 (PORT 3):
	(PORT 0)	(PORT 1)
see p.2, No. 14)

These four Serial ATAII (SATAII) connectors support SATAII

or SATA hard disk for internal storage devices. The current SATAII interface allows up to 3.0 Gb/s data transfer rate.

English

Serial ATA (SATA)	Either end of the SATA data cable
Data Cable	can be connected to the SATA /
(Optional)	SATAII hard disk or the SATAII
	connector on this motherboard.

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