Albatron Technology PX865PEC warranty Connectors, Floppy Drive Disk Connector FDD1

Connectors

Floppy Drive Disk Connector: FDD1

The mainboard provides a standard floppy drive connector (FDC) that supports 360K, 720K, 1.2M, 1.44M and 2.88M floppy disks. This connector supports the floppy drive ribbon cables provided in the packaging.

Hard Drive Disk Connectors: IDE1/ IDE2、SATA1/ SATA2

The mainboard has a 32-bit enhanced IDE Controller that supports Ultra ATA 33, Ultra ATA 66, Ultra ATA 100 and Ultra ATA 133. It has two IDE slots, IDE1 and IDE2 for connecting the hard drive disks. You can expand to connect maximal 4 IDE supported devices, such as hard drive disk, CD-ROM, 120MB floppy disk, and so on. The mainboard also has two Serial ATA connectors that support SATA 150 Mbps transfer rate.

IDE1 (Primary IDE Connector)

You can connect up to two hard drive disks to IDE1. If you attach two HDDs, you must use a ribbon cable with three connectors. You must also configure one drive as the master and one drive as the slave.

IDE2 (Secondary IDE Connector)

The IDE2 connector can also support a Master and a Slave HDD. The configuration is similar to IDE1.

SATA1/ SATA2

The SATA connectors support a transfer rate to 150 MB/s. One SATA connector only can connect one serial ATA hard drive disk of each time.

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