Serial and Parallel ATA Drive Guidelines and Features

Drive/Partition Capacity Limits

 

 

 

 

 

Maximum Size

 

FileController

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SystemTypeOperating SystemPartitionDrive

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FAT 32

ATA

Windows 2000/ XP

32 GB

128 PB

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NTFS

ATA

Windows NT/2000/XP

2 TB

128 PB

 

 

 

 

 

 

4.6 SATA BIOS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Windows 2000 and XPWindows 9x, NT, and Linux

 

 

 

 

Enhanced Mode (default BIOS Setting)

Compatibility Mode (non-default BIOS Setting)

 

—Separate IDE controller

 

—Combined IDE controller

 

 

 

 

 

 

• PATA Controller in Legacy Mode

• PATA Controller in Legacy Mode

 

 

- Device 0 is accessible as Device 0 of

- Device 0 is accessible as Device 0 of the

 

PATA controller’s Primary Channel

combined controller’s Secondary Channel

 

- Device 1 is accessible as Device 1 of

- Device 1 is accessible as Device 1 of the

 

PATA controller’s Primary Channel

combined controller’s Secondary Channel

 

• SATA Controller in Native Mode

• SATA Controller in Legacy Mode

 

 

- SATA 0 is accessible as Device 0 of

- SATA 0 is accessible as Device 0 of the

 

SATA controller’s Primary Channel

combined controller’s Primary Channel

 

- SATA 1 is accessible as Device 0 of

- SATA 1 is inaccessible

 

 

SATA controller’s Secondary Channel

- SATA 2 is accessible as device 1 of the

 

SATA 2 is accessible as Device 1 of SATA

combined controller’s Primary Channel

 

controller’s Primary Channel

- SATA 3 is inaccessible

 

 

- SATA 3 is accessible as Device 1 of

 

 

 

 

SATA controller’s Secondary Channel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4.6.1 Legacy Mode

Use Legacy mode to access devices attached to the embedded IDE controller. The channel requires two fixed I/O address ranges and an IRQ for each.

❏Command block: 1F0h - 1F7h

❏Control block: 3F6h

❏IRQ: 14

 

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