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Chapter 2: Hardware information
Parallel ATA and Serial ATA device configurations
Following are the Parallel ATA and Serial ATA device configurations
supported by Intel ICH5 specifications.
Native IDE mode capable operating systems (OS) are Windows 2000/XP.
ICH5 supports a maximum of six (6) devices using these OS.
Legacy IDE compatible mode OS are MS-DOS, Windows 98/Me/NT4.0.
ICH5 supports a maximum of four (4) devices using these OS.
P-ATA S-ATA
Operating System Primary Secondary Port 0 Port 1
(2 devices) (2 devices) (1 device) (1 device)
1. Windows 2000/XP / / / /
2. Windows 98/Me/NT4.0
Configuration A / X / /
(Primary) (Secondary)
Configuration B X / / /
(Secondary) (Primary)
Configuration C / / X X
(Primary) (Secondary)
Legend:
/ Supported
X Disabled
Primary Logical Primary Channel as recognized by software.
Secondary Logical Secondary Channel as recognized by software.
Required IDE Configuration settings in BIOS
Refer to the following table for the appropriate BIOS settings of the above
P-ATA and S-ATA device configurations. See section “4.3.6 IDE
Configurations” for details on the BIOS items.
Windows Windows 98/Me/NT4.0
BIOS item 2000/XP A B C
Onboard IDE Operate Mode Enhanced Mode Compatible Mode Compatible Mode Compatible Mode
Enhanced Mode Support On P-ATA & S-ATA P-ATA & S-ATA P-ATA & S-ATA P-ATA Only
IDE Port Settings Primary P-ATA+S-ATA Yes Yes No