Intel PCM-6896 manual Integrated Peripherals, On-Chip Primary PCI IDE, On-Chip Secondary PCI IDE

Integrated Peripherals

On-Chip Primary PCI IDE

The system chipset contains a PCI IDE interface with support for two IDE channels. Select Enabled to activate the primary and/or secondary IDE interface. Select Disabled to deactivate this inter- face, if you install a primary and/or secondary add-in IDE interface.

On-Chip Secondary PCI IDE

The chipset contains a PCI IDE interface with support for two IDE channels. Select Enabled to activate the secondary IDE interface. Select Disabled to deactivate this interface.

The choices: Enable, Disable

IDE Primary/Secondary Master/Slave PIO

The four IDE PIO (Programmable Input/Output) fields let you set a PIO mode (0-1) for each of the four IDE devices that the onboard IDE interface supports. Modes 0 through 4 provide successively increased performance. In Auto mode, the system automatically determines the best mode for each device.

The choices: Auto, Mode 0, Mode 1, Mode 2, Mode 3, Mode 4.