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What is the standard IRQ setting for primary IDE controller?
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How many IDE devices can you have?
Short answer: Four A much more precise answer: The IDE standard allows for two devices to share a single IDE channel. The most common configuration is for there to be two IDE channels on the motherboard, allowing for a total of four devices. It is possible however, to add more IDE channels, usually in the form of PCI add-on IDE controller cards and have literally dozens of IDE devices in a single computer system.
What are the four possible configurations for four IDE devices in a system?
Primary IDE Channel , Master Device Primary IDE Channel , Slave Device Secondary IDE Channel , Master Device Secondary IDE Channel , Slave Device
What is the IDE channel to connect hard drives?
The best IDE channel to connect on a hard drive is the Primary IDE channel, Also known as IDE 1 in dell computers
What standard must an ide bus controller and CD-ROM drive support in order to boot from CD?
El Torito
Should ide be master or slave with sata master?
SATA and IDE are operated on different buses, with different controllers. A SATA drive is not considered a "master" or a "slave"; it has a channel all to itself. If the IDE drive is by itself on the controller, it should be set as Master.
What is the default IO address for the primary IDE controller?
3F0 - 3F7Primary floppy disk drive controller. Primary IDE controller (slave drive) (3F6-3F7h)
What standard is also called parallel ata?
Parallel ATA (sometimes called PATA) is synonymous with IDE or EIDE (Integrated Drive Electronics or Enhance Integrated Drive Electronics). IDE was the first technology to include the controller and hard drive in the same housing; previously with SCSI, MFM and RLL drives, the drive and the controller were separate.
What is Primary IDE Channel?
The Primary IDE Channel component provides the IDEport driver in the atapi.sys file.The IDE port driver is part of the IDE driver model in Windows 2000
How many IDE controllers are typically built into an ATX motherboard?
it has 2 IDE controller
What is secondary ide channel?
The secondary IDE channel is used to reference the other IDE channel apart from the primary one on a computer mainboard. While the primary IDE channel usually takes the system/first hard disk of the system, the secondary channel usually takes optical drives or the second hard drive.
What should the replacement optical drive be on the primary IDE controller?
If replacing the optical drive on a primary IDE controller, it is important it is compatible with the CD Rom drive. The IDE data cable must be connected and you must have the power cord plugged in.
