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Primary Master(=PM) Yes Yes No No No No

Primary Slave(=PS) Yes No Yes No No No

Secondary Master(=SM) Yes No No Yes No No

Secondary Slave(=SS) Yes No No No Yes No

SATA Port0 No SM SM PM PM PM

SATA Port1 No SS SS PS PS PS

*Note: (No=Not Present, Yes=Present) Also, if Logical Primary is

selected, the IDE channels are no longer available.

Enhanced Mode:

In this mode, system BIOS will automatically search for all available IRQs for the

use of HDD. For newer Operating Systems that support the Enhanced Mode,

such as Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows 2003, you can set SATA

and PATA to the Enhanced Mode. (*The newer Operating Systems can ac-

commodate both Enhanced Mode and Combined Mode and support up to 6 ATA

devices.)

*Please refer to the Advanced Chipset Control under the Advanced Setup in

the BIOS for the selection of Combined Mode or Enhanced Mode.

ATA Operate Mode

You can select from the following two modes: Combined Mode and Enhanced

Mode.

Combined Mode:

In this mode, system BIOS assigns the traditional IRQ 14 and IRQ 15 for the

use of HDD. Up to 4 ATA devices are supported by this mode.

Within the Combined Mode, the following three modes are supported:

*Non-Combined Mode: Parallel ATA only:with the maximum of 4 devices sup-

ported;

*Non-Combined Mode: Serial ATA only:with the maximum of 2 devices sup-

ported;

*Combined Mode: SATA devices and PATA: with the support of 2 devices

each (total: 4 devices maximum). (For IDE/SATA configurations, please refer

to the table below.)

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