2System Board - (SiS Chipset) (Part Number:
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
The following table shows the two different cable sets for the desktop and minitower computers.
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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, |
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supports: |
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The second cable attached to the | Either an IDE | An IDE |
connector marked | an IDE hard disk drive | third hard disk drive, or two IDE |
system board, supports: |
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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 | |
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| One hard disk drive | 1. Bootable hard disk drive: | Master connector, HDD data cable | |
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| Two hard disk drives | 1. Bootable hard disk drive: | Master connector, HDD data cable | |
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| 2. | Second hard disk drive: | Slave connector, HDD data cable |
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| Three hard disk | 1. | Bootable hard disk drive: | Master connector, HDD data cable |
| drives | 2. | Second hard disk drive: | Slave connector, HDD data cable |
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| 3. | Third hard disk drive: | Master connector, |
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| One hard disk drive | 1. | Bootable hard disk drive: | Master connector, HDD data cable |
| One | 2. | Master connector, | |
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| Two hard disk drives | 1. | Bootable hard disk drive: | Master connector, HDD data cable |
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| 2. | Second hard disk drive: | Slave connector, HDD data cable |
| One | 3. | Master connector, | |
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