SUPER MICRO Computer 5014C-MF user manual Parallel Port, Floppy and IDE Drive Connections

Chapter 5: Advanced Motherboard Setup

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Use the following information to connect the IDE hard disk drive cables.

•A red mark on a wire typically designates the location of pin 1.

•The 80-wire ATA100/66 IDE hard disk drive cable that came with your system has two connectors to support two drives. This special cable should be used to take advantage of the speed this new technology offers. The blue connector connects to the onboard IDE connector interface and the other connector(s) to your hard drive(s). Consult the documentation that came with your disk drive for details on actual jumper locations and settings for the hard disk drive.

Parallel Port Connector

Parallel (Printer) Port Connector

Pin Definitions (J11)

The parallel port is located on

J11. See the table at right for pin

defi nitions.

Pin# Defi nition

1Strobe-

3Data Bit 0

5Data Bit 1

7Data Bit 2

9 Data Bit 3

11 Data Bit 4

13 Data Bit 5

15 Data Bit 6

17 Data Bit 7

19 ACK

21 BUSY

23PE

25SLCT

Pin # Defi nition

2Auto Feed-

4Error-

6Init-

8SLCT IN-

10 GND

12 GND

14 GND

16 GND

18 GND

20 GND

22 Write Data

24Write Gate

26NC

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