American Megatrends Atlas PCI-II User Manual page 40

Step 5 Attach Cables,
Attach IDE Cable to J8 J8 is the primary IDE (Integrated Drive
Install IDE Drivers American Megatrends provides IDE drivers for
Operating System
Windows 3.11 and
Windows for Workgroups
Windows 95
Windows NT v3.x
OS/2
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Electronics) hard disk drive connector. Both the
primary master and the primary slave IDE drives
must be connected by cable to J8, as shown below.
J8 is a 40-pin dual-inline berg that connects an IDE
drive to the primary onboard IDE connector. This
motherboard supports IDE Modes 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4,
IDE prefetch, LBA (Logical Block Address) mode,
high capacity drives (over 528 MB), 32-bit data
transfer, and fast IDE transfer. These IDE features
are configured in Peripheral Setup in the WINBIOS
Setup utility.
Disable the onboard IDE interface in Peripheral
Setup to use an ISA ESDI, RLL, MFM, or SCSI hard
disk drive controller.
the onboard IDE controller. These drivers are
unnecessary if running in DOS, but must be loaded
for other operating systems. These drivers have not
been tested with Novell NetWare or SCO Unix.
Load the PIO drivers for 32-bit
access.
Always load the IDE drivers.
Always load the IDE drivers.
Always load the IDE drivers.
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