Bios Upgrades; Pci Ide Support - Intel TE430VX Technical Product Specification

TE430VX MotherboardMotherboard Technical Product Specification

3.3 BIOS Upgrades

Flash memory makes distributing BIOS upgrades easy. A new version of the BIOS can be
installed from a diskette. BIOS upgrades are available to be down loaded from the secure section
on the Intel bulletin board, or Intel's FTP site.
The disk-based Flash upgrade utility, FMUP.EXE, has three options for BIOS upgrades:
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The Flash BIOS can be updated from a file on a disk;
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The current BIOS code can be copied from the Flash EEPROM to a disk file as a backup in the
event that an upgrade cannot be successfully completed; or
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The BIOS in the Flash device can be compared with a file to ensure the system has the correct
version.
The upgrade utility ensures the upgrade BIOS extension matches the target system to prevent
accidentally installing a BIOS for a different type of system.

3.4 PCI IDE Support

The two local bus IDE connectors with independent I/O channel support are setup up automatically
by the BIOS if the user selects "Autoconfiguration" in setup. The IDE interface supports PIO
Mode 3, and Mode 4 hard drives and recognition of ATAPI CD-ROMs, tape drives, and any other
ATAPI devices. The BIOS will determine the capabilities of each drive and configure them to
optimize capacity and performance. For the high capacity hard drives typically available today, the
drive will be automatically be configured for Logical Block Addressing (LBA) for maximum
capacity and to PIO Mode 3 or 4 depending on the capability of the drive. The user is able to
override the auto-configuration options by using the manual mode setting. The ATAPI
Specification Revision 2.5 recommends that an ATAPI device be configured as shown in the table
below.
Table 12. Recommendations for Configuring an ATAPI Device
Primary Cable
Drive 0
ATA
ATA
ATA
ATA
ATAPI
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Secondary Cable
Drive 1 Drive 0
ATAPI
ATAPI
ATAPI
Drive 1
Normal, no ATAPI
Disk and CD-ROM for enhanced
IDE systems
Legacy IDE System with only one
cable
ATAPI Enhanced IDE with CD-ROM and
a tape or two CD-ROMs
ATAPI CD-ROM as only IDE
device in the system