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Installing a Hard Disk Drive/CD-ROM
This section describes how to install IDE devices such as a
hard disk drive and a CD-ROM drive.
About IDE Devices
Your mainboard has a primary IDE channel interface (IDE1)
and a secondary IDE interface (IDE2). The mainboard ships
with one IDE ribbon cable that supports one or two IDE de-
vices. All IDE devices have jumpers or switches that can be
used to set the IDE device as MASTER or SLAVE.
If you install two IDE devices on one cable, you must make
sure that one device is set to MASTER and the other device is
set to SLAVE. The documentation of your IDE device explains
how to do this.
If you want to install more than two IDE devices, obtain a sec-
ond IDE cable and you can add two more devices to the
secondary IDE channel. If there are two devices on the cable,
make one MASTER and one SLAVE.
About UltraDMA
This board supports UltraDMA 33/66 (or UDMA 100 with the
optional VIA VT82C686B chipset). UDMA is a technology that
speeds the performance of devices in the IDE channel. We
recommend that you install IDE devices that support UDMA,
and use IDE cables that support UDMA.
Note:
The P6VXM2T supports two VIA South Bridge
chipsets —the VIA VT82C686A and the VIA
VT82C686B. The VIA VT82C686A is standard and
supports UDMA33/66. The VIA VT82C686B is op-
tional and supports UDMA100.