Parallel ATA and Serial ATA device configurations

Following are the Parallel ATA and Serial ATA device configurations supported by Intel ICH5 specifications.

Native IDE mode capable operating systems (OS) are Windows 2000/XP. ICH5 supports a maximum of six (6) devices using these OS.

Legacy IDE compatible mode OS are MS-DOS, Windows 98/Me/NT4.0. ICH5 supports a maximum of four (4) devices using these OS.

 

 

 

P-ATA

 

S-ATA

Operating System

 

Primary

Secondary

Port 0

Port 1

 

 

(2 devices)

(2 devices)

(1 device)

(1 device)

1. Windows 2000/XP

/

/

/

/

2. Windows 98/Me/NT4.0

 

 

 

 

Configuration A

/

X

/

/

 

 

(Primary)

 

(Secondary)

Configuration B

X

/

/

/

 

 

 

(Secondary)

 

(Primary)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Configuration C

/

/

X

X

 

 

(Primary)

(Secondary)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Legend:

/Supported

X Disabled

Primary Logical Primary Channel as recognized by software.

Secondary Logical Secondary Channel as recognized by software.

Required IDE Configuration settings in BIOS

Refer to the following table for the appropriate BIOS settings of the above P-ATA and S-ATA device configurations. See section “4.3.6 IDE Configurations” for details on the BIOS items.

 

Windows

Windows 98/Me/NT4.0

BIOS item

2000/XP

A

B

C

Onboard IDE Operate Mode

Enhanced Mode

Compatible Mode

Compatible Mode

Compatible Mode

 

 

 

 

 

Enhanced Mode Support On

P-ATA & S-ATA

P-ATA & S-ATA

P-ATA & S-ATA

P-ATA Only

 

 

 

 

 

IDE Port Settings

Primary P-ATA+S-ATA

Yes

Yes

No

 

 

 

 

 

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