4.3Connectors

1.Floppy disk drive connector (34-1 pin FLOPPY1)

This connector supports the provided floppy drive ribbon cable. After connecting one end to the motherboard, connect the other end to the floppy drive.

NCCH-DL

FLOPPY 1

PIN 1

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

NCCH-DL Floppy disk drive connector

2.Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1, SATA2)

These next generation connectors support the thin Serial ATA cables for Serial ATA hard disks. The current Serial ATA interface allows up to 150 MB/s data transfer rate, faster than the standard parallel ATA with 133 MB/s (Ultra ATA/133).

If you installed Serial ATA hard disks, you may create a RAID 0/RAID 1 configuration using the RAID feature of the Intel® 6300ESB ICH. Refer to page 5-26 to 5-27 for the SATA configuration.

NCCH-DL

NCCH-DL SATA connectors

SATA2

GND RSATA_TXP2 RSATA_TXN2

GND RSATA_RXN2 RSATA_RXP2

GND

SATA1

GND RSATA_TXP1 RSATA_TXN1

GND RSATA_RXN1 RSATA_RXP1

GND

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Chapter 4: Motherboard info