3.4Floppy drive and 2nd hard drive/CD-ROM installation

If you would like to install a floppy drive or 2nd hard drive, CD-ROM drive, a riser card which comes with the accessory box has to be installed first as shown in Figure 3-10.

3.4.1 Floppy drive installation

Up to two floppy drives can be attached to the PPC-S123's I/O controller. Any combination of 5¼" (360KB and 1.2 MB) and/or 3½" (720KB, 1.44 MB, and 2.88MB) drives can be attached.

A 34-pin FDD connector is located on the riser card of the PPC-S123. Connect one end of a 34-pin daisy-chain drive connector cable and one end of a power signal cable (one each of these is included in the accessory box to the FDD connector on the riser card and connect each of the other ends to an FDD.

Note 1: Installation of two FDDs requires a flat ribbon connector with two plugs and a y-splitter for the power cable. The flat ribbon cable in the accessory kit has the required plugs. Users will have to procure an appropriate y-splitter for the power cable themselves.

Note 2: We recommend that only FDD be installed on your PPC-S123.The requisite power connector cable is included in the PPC-S123 accessory box.

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