SUPER MICRO Computer X8DTE-F Floppy Drive, Serial ATA and SAS Connections, Floppy Connector

Models: X8DTE-F X8DT6-F X8DT6 X8DTE

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Chapter 2: Installation

2-9 Floppy Drive, Serial ATA and SAS 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.

Floppy Drive Connector

Pin Definitions

Floppy Connector

The floppy connector is located next to the Super I/O chip on the mother- board. See the table on the right for pin definitions.

Pin#

Definition

1

Ground

3

Ground

5

Key

7

Ground

9Ground

11Ground

13Ground

15Ground

17Ground

19Ground

21Ground

23Ground

25Ground

27Ground

29Ground

31Ground

33Ground

Pin # Definition

2

FDHDIN

4

Reserved

6

FDEDIN

8

Index

10Motor Enable

12Drive Select B

14Drive Select B

16Motor Enable

18DIR

20STEP

22Write Data

24Write Gate

26Track 00

28Write Protect

30Read Data

32Side 1 Select

34Diskette

KB/MOUSE

FAN5

 

 

FAN6

USB 0/1

IPMI

LAN

COM1

 

 

VGA

PHY

 

LAN1

 

 

LAN2

 

 

 

FAN8/

 

 

CPU2 Fan

P1-DIMM3A

P1-DIMM3B

P1-DIMM2A

P1-DIMM2B

P1-DIMM1A

P1-DIMM1B

CPU1

SLOT7 PCI-E 2.0 X8

JPI2C1

JPW2

JPW3

JPW1

CPU2

 

 

P2-DIMM1B

 

 

P2-DIMM1A

 

 

P2-DIMM2B

 

 

P2-DIMM2A

 

 

P2-DIMM3B

 

 

P2-DIMM3A

 

 

FAN1

FAN7 CPU1 Fan

JF1

LE1

FAN2

JD1

JOH1

A. Floppy

LAN

CTRL

LAN

CTRL

BMC

CTRL

D1

COM2

 

 

 

 

 

X8DT6/E Series Rev. 2.01

 

 

FAN3

 

 

 

 

 

 

SP1

SLOT6 PCI-E 2.0 X8

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

JPL1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Intel 5520

 

 

 

 

 

SLOT5 PCI-E 2.0 X8

 

 

 

 

IOH

 

 

 

 

 

FLOPPY

 

 

BIOS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SIO

SLOT4 PCI-E 2.0 X8

JBT1

 

 

 

 

 

 

LED1

 

J5

 

JPL2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Intel ICH10R

 

 

 

 

 

SAS0~3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SLOT3 PCI-E 2.0 X4

 

South Bridge

TPM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LSI 2008

 

 

 

 

Battery

 

 

 

 

JP7

 

 

SAS4~7

 

 

 

 

 

 

JIBTN1

SAS CTRL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

T-SGPIO1

I-SATA5

I-SATA2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

T-SGPIO2

 

 

 

FAN4 JWOL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SLOT1 PCI-E X4

JPB

USB6/7

USB4/5

USB3

USB2 I-SATA4

I-SATA1

 

JPS1

 

JI2C1

 

I-SATA3

I-SATA0

JL1

 

JPG1

 

 

 

 

JI2C2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

JWF1

JWD

 

 

 

 

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SUPER MICRO Computer X8DTE-F, X8DT6-F user manual Floppy Drive, Serial ATA and SAS Connections, Floppy Connector

X8DTE-F, X8DT6-F, X8DT6, X8DTE specifications

Super Micro Computer offers a robust line of server motherboards designed for high performance, reliability, and scalability. Among these are the X8DTE, X8DT6, X8DT6-F, and X8DTE-F models, which cater to diverse computing needs in enterprise environments.

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