2System Board - (SiS Chipset) (Part Number: D4051-63001) Devices on the PCI Bus

Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE) Controller

The IDE controller is implemented as part of the PCI/ISA bridge chip. It is driven from the PCI bus and has PCI-Master capability. It supports Enhanced IDE (EIDE) and Standard IDE (Bus Master IDE). To use the Enhanced IDE features, though, hard disk drives must be compliant with Enhanced IDE.

The following table shows the two different cable sets for the desktop and minitower computers.

 

Desktop

Minitower

 

 

 

The first cable attached to the connector

Up to two IDE hard disk drives

Up to two IDE hard disk drives

marked HDD on the system board,

 

 

supports:

 

 

 

 

 

The second cable attached to the

Either an IDE CD-ROM drive or

An IDE CD-ROM drive and a

connector marked CD-ROM on the

an IDE hard disk drive

third hard disk drive, or two IDE

system board, supports:

 

CD-ROM drives

 

 

 

The following tables show the possible multiple IDE drive combinations for the desktop and minitower computers when installing additional devices.

Desktop

Configuration

 

Connections to Data Cables

 

 

 

 

 

One hard disk drive

1. Bootable hard disk drive:

Master connector, HDD data cable

 

 

 

 

 

Two hard disk drives

1. Bootable hard disk drive:

Master connector, HDD data cable

 

 

2.

Second hard disk drive:

Slave connector, HDD data cable

 

 

 

 

 

 

Three hard disk

1.

Bootable hard disk drive:

Master connector, HDD data cable

 

drives

2.

Second hard disk drive:

Slave connector, HDD data cable

 

 

3.

Third hard disk drive:

Master connector, CD-ROM data cable

 

 

 

 

 

 

One hard disk drive

1.

Bootable hard disk drive:

Master connector, HDD data cable

 

One CD-ROM drive

2.

CD-ROM drive:

Master connector, CD-ROM data cable

 

 

 

 

 

 

Two hard disk drives

1.

Bootable hard disk drive:

Master connector, HDD data cable

 

 

2.

Second hard disk drive:

Slave connector, HDD data cable

 

One CD-ROM drive

3.

CD-ROM drive:

Master connector, CD-ROM data cable

 

 

 

 

 

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