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2 System Board - (SiS Chipset) (Part Number: D4051-63001)
Devices on the PCI Bus
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 PCI-Master capability. It supports
Enhanced IDE (EIDE) and Standard IDE (Bus Master IDE). To use the
Enhanced IDE features, though, hard disk drives must be compliant with
Enhanced IDE.
The following table shows the two different cable sets for the desktop and
minitower computers.
The following tables show the possible multiple IDE drive combinations for
the desktop and minitower computers when installing additional devices.
Desktop Minitower
The first cable attached to the connector
marked HDD on the system board,
supports:
Up to two IDE hard disk drives Up to two IDE hard disk drives
The second cable attached to the
connector marked CD-ROM on the
system board, supports:
Either an IDE CD-ROM drive or
an IDE hard disk drive
An IDE CD-ROM drive and a
third hard disk drive, or two IDE
CD-ROM drives
Desktop Configuration Connections to Data Cables
One hard disk drive 1. Bootable hard disk drive: Master connector, HDD data cable
Two hard disk drives 1. Bootable hard disk drive:
2. Second hard disk drive:
Master connector, HDD data cable
Slave connector, HDD data cable
Three hard disk
drives
1. Bootable hard disk drive:
2. Second hard disk drive:
3. Third hard disk drive:
Master connector, HDD data cable
Slave connector, HDD data cable
Master connector, CD-ROM data cable
One hard disk drive
One CD-ROM drive
1. Bootable hard disk drive:
2. CD-ROM drive:
Master connector, HDD data cable
Master connector, CD-ROM data cable
Two hard disk drives
One CD-ROM drive
1. Bootable hard disk drive:
2. Second hard disk drive:
3. CD-ROM drive:
Master connector, HDD data cable
Slave connector, HDD data cable
Master connector, CD-ROM data cable