10) Floppy Disk Drive Connector (34-1 pin FLOPPY)

This connector supports the provided floppy drive ribbon cable. After connecting the single end to the board, connect the two plugs on the other end to the floppy drives. (Pin 5 is removed to prevent inserting in the wrong orientation when using ribbon cables with pin 5 plugged).

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NOTE: Orient the red markings on the floppy ribbon cable to PIN 1

PIN 1

A7N266-VM Floppy Disk Drive Connector

11) Primary (Blue) / Secondary (Black) IDE Connectors

(40-1 pin PRIMARY IDE and SECONDARY IDE)

The Primary and Secondary IDE connectors support the IDE hard disk ribbon cables supplied with the motherboard. Connect the cable’s blue connector to the motherboard’s primary IDE connector (recommended) or the secondary IDE connector. Connect the opposite end of the cable to your UltraDMA100/

66device (hard disk drive). If a second hard disk drive is connected, youmay reset its jumper to Slave or Master/Slave mode. Non-UltraDMA100/

66devices should be connected to the secondary IDE connector. BIOS supports specific device bootup (see 4.6 Boot Menu.)

IMPORTANT! UltraDMA100 IDE devices require a 40-pin 80-conductor cable and RAID arrays only operate with such cables.

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A7N266-VM IDE Connectors

Secondary IDE Connector

 

 

 

 

Primary IDE Connector

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PIN 1

NOTE: Orient the red markings (usually zigzag) on the IDE ribbon cable to PIN 1.

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