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III. INSTALLATION

(Connectors)

III. INSTALLATION

5. Primary / Secondary IDE connectors (IDE, two 40-1 pins)

These connectors support the provided IDE hard disk ribbon cable. After con-

necting the single end to the board, connect the two plugs at the other end to

your hard disk(s). If you install two hard disks, you must set the second drive to

Slave mode. Refer to the documentation of your hard disk for the jumper set-

tings. BIOS now supports SCSI device or IDE CD-ROM bootup (see HDD Se-

quence SCSI/IDE First & Boot Sequence in the BIOS Features Setup of the

BIOS SOFTWARE) (Pin 20 is removed to prevent inserting in the wrong

orientation when using ribbon cables with pin 20 plugged).

P2E-B IDE Connectors

Primary IDE Connector

Secondary IDE Connector

Pin 1

TIP: You may configure two hard disks to be both Masters using one ribbon

cable on the primary IDE connector and another ribbon cable on the secondary

IDE connector. You may install one operating system on an IDE drive and

another on a SCSI drive and select the boot disk through BIOS Features Setup.

6. IDE activity LED (IDE LED, 2 pins)

This connector supplies power to the cabinet’s IDE activity LED. Read and

write activity by devices connected to the Primary or Secondary IDE connectors

will cause the LED to light up.

P2E-B IDE Activity LED

TIP: If the case-mounted LED does not light,

try reversing the 2-pin plug.

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