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Motherboard Description
Primary and Secondary E-IDE Connectors
Your motherboard has two built-in PCI E-IDE interfaces (primary and
secondary). Each interface supports up to two IDE drives (master and slave).
After connecting the one end of the IDE ribbon cable to the primary or secondary
E-IDE connector on the motherboard, connect the connector(s) at the other end
to your IDE drive(s) such as the hard disk drive or CD-ROM drive.
If you install two hard disks by using one IDE ribbon cable, you must configure
the second drive to slave mode by setting its jumper accordingly. See the manual
of your hard disk for the jumper settings.
You may configure two hard disk drives to be both masters by connecting one
ribbon cable (one hard disk drive will be attached to it) to the primary E-IDE
connector and another ribbon cable (the other hard disk drive will be attached to
it) to the secondary IDE connector. When you install one operating system on an
IDE drive and another on the other IDE drive, you can select the boot device
through the Setup program.
The BIOS in the motherboard supports boot up from IDE CD-ROM drive,
floptical drive, SCSI drive or network drive. So, you can select a CD-ROM drive
or floptical drive as a boot device by setting the 1st/2nd /3rd Boot Device option
to CD-ROM or Floptical in the Advanced Setup menu of the Setup program.
NOTE : The hard disk drive controller on the motherboard supports Ultra DMA/
33, a DMA data transfer protocol for hard disk drives. This allows DMA
commands to transfer data at a maximum burst rate of 33MB/sec. Both the
controller and the hard disk must be capable of supporting Ultra DMA/33 in order
to enable this feature.
