2.Floppy disk drive connector (34-1 pin FLOPPY)

This connector supports the provided floppy drive ribbon cable. After connecting one end to the motherboard, connect the other end to the floppy drive. (Pin 5 is removed to prevent incorrect insertion when using ribbon cables with pin 5 plug).

 

FLOPPY

PIN 1

 

NOTE: Orient the red markings on

K8N-E

the floppy ribbon cable to PIN 1.

K8N-E Floppy disk drive connector

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

These next generation connectors support the thin Serial ATA cables for primary internal storage devices. The current Serial ATA interface allows up to 150 MB/s data transfer rate, faster than the standard parallel ATA with 133MB/s (Ultra ATA/133).These connectors support two Serial ATA hard disk drives that you can combine with the IDE connectors to configure a RAID set through the built-in RAID controller.

K8N-E

K8N-E SATA connectors

SATA2 SATA1

GND RSATA RXP2 RSATA RXN2 GND RSATA TXN2 RSATA TXP2 GND

GND RSATA RXP1 RSATA RXN1 GND RSATA TXN1 RSATA TXP1 GND

ASUS K8N-E

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