Integrated Drive Electronics (Ide) Controller - HP 525 5/XX Technical Reference Manual

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