Ide Adapters - NEC POWERMATE V Manual

IDE Adapters

IDE adapters control the IDE devices, such as IDE hard
disk drives and IDE CD-ROM readers, in your system.
Your system uses two IDE controllers integrated on the
system board.
Setup supports up to four IDE devices, with an IDE adapter
for each of the following configurations:
1 Master
1 Master, 1 Slave
2 Masters
2 Masters, 1 Slave
2 Masters, 2 Slaves
The master/slave combination for a standard hard disk
configuration is "1 Master." If you add a hard disk to the
fast IDE port (IDE1 connector), the combination becomes
"1 Master, 1 Slave." Change the jumper setting on the IDE
device to set the device to master or slave (see the
documentation that comes with the device).
For multimedia systems, the IDE hard disk and CD-ROM
reader are both "Masters." The hard disk drive is the
"Master" on the primary connector and the CD-ROM
reader is the "Master" on the secondary connector. If you
add an IDE hard disk to the system, the combination
becomes "2 Masters, 1 Slave."
NOTE
the multimedia configuration, the CONFIG.SYS and
AUTOEXEC.BAT require changes as well.
If you change the CD-ROM reader setting in
Setting System Parameters 4-9