K8SLI

Connectors

Floppy Disk Connector: FDC

The 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/ IDE2、SATA1/ 2/ 3/ 4

The mainboard has a 32-bit Enhanced PCI IDE Controller that supports Ultra ATA 66, Ultra ATA 100 and Ultra ATA 133. It has two HDD connectors, IDE1 and IDE2. The mainboard also has four Serial ATA connectors that support SATA RAID 0/ 1/ 0+1/ JBOD.

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 controller can also support a Master and a Slave drive. The configuration is similar to IDE1.

SATA1/ SATA2/ SATA3/ SATA4

The SATA connectors support transfer rate up to 300 MB/s and SATA RAID 0/ 1/ 0+1/ JBOD mode. The connectors only can connect one serial ATA hard disk device each.

This mainboard supports SATA RAID 0/ 1 / 0+1 / JBOD.

See appendix Ⅱ for more information.

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