Chapter 2: Installation

2-8 Parallel Port, Floppy/Hard Disk Drive and SCSI Connections

Note the following when connecting the floppy and hard disk drive cables.

The floppy disk drive cable has seven twisted wires.

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

A single floppy disk drive ribbon cable has 34 wires and two connectors to provide for two floppy disk drives. The connector with twisted wires always connects to drive A, and the connector that does not have twisted wires always connects to drive B.

The 80-wire ATA66/100 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 inter- face and the other connector(s) to your hard drive(s). Consult the docu- mentation that came with your disk drive for details on actual jumper locations and settings for the hard disk drive.

Parallel Port Connector

The parallel port is located above the VGA port and COM1. Refer to the table below for pin definitions.

P a ra lle l (P rinte r) P o rt P in D e finitio ns

Pin Number

Function

Pin Number

Function

1

Strobe-

2

Auto Feed-

3

Data Bit 0

4

Error-

5

Data Bit 1

6

Init-

7

Data Bit 2

8

SLCT IN -

9

Data Bit 3

10

G ND

11

Data Bit 4

12

G ND

13

Data Bit 5

14

G ND

15

Data Bit 6

16

G ND

17

Data Bit 7

18

G ND

19

ACK

20

G ND

21

BUSY

22

G ND

23

PE

24

G ND

25

SLCT

26

NC

 

 

 

 

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SUPER MICRO Computer SUPER, P3TDDR Parallel Port, Floppy/Hard Disk Drive and Scsi Connections, Parallel Port Connector

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