2 System Board - (SiS Chipset) (Part Number:
Devices on the PCI Bus
Minitower | 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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| Three hard disk | 1. | Bootable hard disk drive: | Master connector, HDD data cable |
| drives | 2. | Second hard disk drive: | Slave connector, HDD data cable |
| One | 3. | Third hard disk drive: | Master connector, |
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| 4. | Slave 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 |
| Two | 3. | Master connector, | |
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| 4. | Second | Slave connector, |
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The BIOS uses the
Transfer Rates Versus Modes of Operation
The IDE controller supports
The five PIO modes allow the following transfer rates:
Mode | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
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Cycle time (ns) | 600 | 383 | 240 | 180 | 120 |
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Transfer rate (MBytes/s) | 3.33 | 5.22 | 8.33 | 11.1 | 16.7 |
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