PX865PE7 PRO/ PX865PE7
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Connectors Floppy Disk Connector: FDC
The series mainboard provides a standard floppy disk connector (FDC) that supports 360K, 720K,
1.2M, 1.44M and 2.88M floppy diskettes. This connector supports the floppy drive ribbon cables
provided in the packaging.
Hard Disk Connectors: IDE1-2/ SATA1-2
The series mainboard has a 32-bit Enhanced PCI IDE Controller that supports PIO Mode 0~4, Bus
Master, Ultra ATA 66/ 100. This mainboard has two IDE connectors, IDE1 (primary) and IDE2
(secondary). It also provides two serial ATA connectors.
IDE1 (Primary IDE Connector)
You can connect up to two hard drives to IDE1. If you attach two drives, you must use a ribbon cable
with three connectors. You must also configure one drive as the master and one drive as the slave,
using the jumpers located on each drive.
IDE2 (Secondary IDE Connector)
The IDE2 connector can also support a Master and a Slave drive. The configuration is similar to
IDE1. The second drive on this controller must be set to slave mode.
SATA1/ SATA2
These SATA connectors support Serial ATA 150. These connectors only can connect to one serial
ATA hard disk each.