Viglen BX130, User Manual

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Viglen BX130 – VIG385P User Manual
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Different operating systems have different abilities regarding IDE translation mode.
UNIX operating systems (as currently implemented) do not support either LBA or
ECHS and must utilise the standard CHS method. UNIX can support drives larger
than 528MB, but does so in its own way.
OS/2 2.1 and OS/2 Warp can support LBA, ECHS or standard CHS methods. Note
that LBA support may require a switch setting on an OS/2 driver in order to operate
in that mode.
OS/2 2.0 & Novel NetWare can support either ECHS or standard CHS methods. In
order to use LBA with NetWare a driver that supports current parameters must be
used. OS/2 2.0 does not support LBA.
DOS & Windows can use LBA, ECHS or standard CHS methods. The '32-bit Disk
Access' driver built into Windows WDCTRL.386 can only be used with the standard
CHS method, to use either LBA or ECHS method and '32-bit Disk Access' an
alternative .386 driver must be installed; this combination will also provide the best
performance. If this driver is not installed and the drive fitted to the system supports
Type F DMA on the ISA interface or Mode 3 on the PCI interface then higher
performance will be achieved by NOT using '32-bit Disk Access'.
Network Controllers
The VIG385P Motherboard includes an Intel 82573V PCI-e Gigabit Ethernet
Controller (supporting 10, 100, 1000Mbs) network solution. As a PCI 2.2 bus master,
the controller can burst data at up to 132 MB/s. The controller contains two receive
and transmit FIFO buffers that prevent data overruns or under runs while waiting for
access to the PCI bus. The controller has the following:
Serial ATA
The VIG385P consists of four S-ATA connections. In order to use these ports the S-
ATA option in the bios must first be enabled and the relevant S-ATA Motherboard
jumpers must be set correctly on the enable pins .
Refer to the jumper and bios pages for more details on enabling SATA.