Asus A7V266-E AA A7V266-E User Manual - Page 35

3. HARDWARE SETUP 10) Primary (Blue) / Secondary (Black) IDE Connectors (40-1 pin PRIMARY IDE and SECONDARY IDE) (40-1 pin PROMISE IDE1 and PROMISE2 IDE) These connectors support the IDE hard disk ribbon cables supplied with the motherboard. Connect the cable's blue connector to the motherboard's primary IDE connector (recommended) or the secondary IDE connector. Then connect the opposite end of the cable to your UltraDMA/100/66 device (hard disk drive). A second slave hard disk may be attached to the intermediate connector on the cable. If a second hard disk drive is connected, you may reset its jumper to Slave mode. Refer to your hard disk documentation for the jumper settings. It is recommended that non-UltraDMA/100/66 devices be connected to the secondary IDE connector. BIOS now supports specific device bootup (see 4.6 Boot Menu.) If you have more than two UltraDMA100/66 devices, you will need to purchase another UltraDMA100/66 cable. (Pin 20 is removed to prevent inserting in the wrong orientation when using ribbon cables.) The TUSL2 motherboard is supplied with two extra onboard IDE connectors: one Promise IDE1 and one Promise IDE2. You can use them to setup the RAID 0 or 1 arrays and to support extra IDE devices. A total of eight hard-disks, two on each IDE connector, can be connected to the A7V266-E, but only two can function in a RAID array. See 5.4 Software Setup for more information about setting up a RAID array. TIP: For high-performance and RAID 0 or 1 set ups, always setup two hard disks with two separate ribbon cables, one for the primary IDE connector and another for the secondary IDE connector. Usually, both disks may be set to the Master settings. Also, you may install one operating system on an IDE drive and another on a SCSI drive and select the boot disk through BIOS. (See 4.6 Boot Menu.) NOTE: UltraDMA/100 is backward compatible with DMA/66 and DMA/33 and with all with existing DMA devices and systems, so there is no need to upgrade current EIDE/IDE drives and host systems. IMPORTANT: UltraDMA66 and UltraDMA100 IDE devices require a 40-pin 80-conductor cable and RAID arrays only operate with such cables. 3. H/W SETUP Connectors 01 01 01 PROMISE IDE2 Connector PROMISE IDE1 Connector Primary IDE Connector Secondary IDE Connector A7V266-E A7V266-E IDE Connectors PIN 1 PIN 1 NOTE: Orient the red markings (usually zigzag) on the IDE ribbon cable to PIN 1. ASUS A7V266-E User's Manual 35