IDE Interface Configuration

Use Setup to specify your IDE hard disk drive types. See the Setup section beginning on page 2-48for details.

If you do not find a drive type whose displayed parameters match the drive you are using, use drive type USER. It allows you to manually enter the drive’s parameters. The drive manufacturer provides the drive parameters—check the drive’s documentation for the proper values to enter.

If you are using a newer IDE drive, use drive type AUTO. It automatically configures the drive type parameters from information provided by the drive itself.

CompactFlash Solid-State Disk

The Little Board P6d system supports a CompactFlash device, a solid-state IDE hard-disk emulator. It acts as a removable hard-disk drive. You can format, read, and write the CompactFlash device much as you would any standard IDE drive.

Enabling the Drive

The CompactFlash interface emulates an IDE drive to the operating system. However, the CompactFlash interface takes up one of the positions of the primary IDE drive controller.

Note

If you use the CompactFlash interface, you can only add one additional hard drive to the primary IDE controller.

Master/Slave Setting

The CompactFlash interface can be configured to emulate a master or slave IDE device in the system.

To configure the drive as master, install a jumper on W1. To configure the drive as slave, remove the jumper on W1.

Note

The IDE drive attached to the primary IDE controller must have the opposite setting.

Solid-State Disk Preparation

To prepare CompactFlash device for use in the system, insert the device. Boot the system and prepare the drive just as you would a new IDE drive. That is, use the DOS FDISK utility to set up one or more partitions, and then use the DOS FORMAT utility to format the drive.

A CompactFlash device, properly formatted and programmed, can be used as a boot drive. To do so, you must configure the drive to be master by installing a jumper on W1. First FDISK the device as a primary DOS partition, then format the drive using the /S option to include the DOS operating system.

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Ampro Corporation 5001451A manual CompactFlash Solid-State Disk, IDE Interface Configuration, Enabling the Drive

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