Mainboard nForce 680i SLI/

Mainboard nForce 680i LT SLI

Connectors

Floppy Disk Drive Connector: FLOPPY

These mainboards provide a standard floppy disk drive connector (FDD) that supports 360KB/ 720KB/ 1.2MB/ 1.44MB/ 2.88 MB floppy disk drives using a FDD ribbon cable.

Hard Disk Drive Connectors: IDE

These mainboards provide one IDE connector that supports Ultra ATA 33/66/100/133 IDE devices. You can attach a maximum of two IDE devices, such as hard disk drive (HDD), CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, etc. using an IDE ribbon cable.

In general, two IDE devices can be attached onto one IDE connector. If you attach two IDE HDDs, you must configure one drive as the master and the other one as the slave. In this case, one optical device i.e., CD-ROM, DVD-ROM…etc. should be attached to this connector as well.

SATA II Connector: SATA A0/A1/B0/B1/C0/C1

The six SATA II connectors support 3 Gbps transmit rate, and one SATA connector only can attach one SATA HDD of each time using SATA cables.

 

Pin

Assignment

Pin

Assignment

1

1

GND

2

TX+

 

 

 

 

3

TX-

4

GND

SATA A0/ A1/ B0/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

B1/ C0/ C1

5

RX+

6

RX-

 

 

 

 

 

 

7

GND

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This mainboard supports RAID 0/ 1/ 0+1/ 5/ JBOD mode; refer

Appendix II for more information.

Attention

The FDD/ IDE cable is designed and should be attached with a specific direction. One edge of the cable will usually in color such as red, to indicate that should line up with the header pin-1.

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