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Transfer rates versus modes of operation – HP Vectra 500 Series User Manual

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2 System Board - (SiS Chipset) (Part Number: D4051-63001)

Devices on the PCI Bus

The BIOS uses the auto-detected drive information to select the fastest
configuration supported by each installed IDE drive.

Transfer Rates Versus Modes of Operation

The IDE controller supports 32-bit Windows and DOS I/O transfers (many
IDE controllers use Windows integral IDE driver which only supports 16-bit
I/O transfers). It supports programmed I/O (PIO) modes up to mode 4 and
direct memory access (DMA) modes up to mode 2 (giving a cycle time of
120 ns, and a transfer rate of 16.7 MB per second, in both cases).

The five PIO modes allow the following transfer rates:

Minitower

Configuration

Connections to Data Cables

One hard disk drive

1. Bootable hard disk drive:

Master connector, HDD data cable

Two hard disk drives

1. Bootable hard disk drive:
2. Second hard disk drive:

Master connector, HDD data cable
Slave connector, HDD data cable

Three hard disk
drives

1. Bootable hard disk drive:
2. Second hard disk drive:
3. Third hard disk drive:

Master connector, HDD data cable
Slave connector, HDD data cable
Master connector, CD-ROM data cable

One hard disk drive
One CD-ROM drive

1. Bootable hard disk drive:
2. CD-ROM drive:

Master connector, HDD data cable
Master connector, CD-ROM data cable

Two hard disk drives

One CD-ROM drive

1. Bootable hard disk drive:
2. Second hard disk drive:
3. CD-ROM drive:

Master connector, HDD data cable
Slave connector, HDD data cable
Master connector, CD-ROM data cable

Three hard disk
drives
One CD-ROM drive

1. Bootable hard disk drive:
2. Second hard disk drive:
3. Third hard disk drive:
4. CD-ROM drive:

Master connector, HDD data cable
Slave connector, HDD data cable
Master connector, CD-ROM data cable
Slave connector, CD-ROM data cable

Two hard disk drives

Two CD-ROM drives

1. Bootable hard disk drive:
2. Second hard disk drive:
3. CD-ROM driver:
4. Second CD-ROM drive:

Master connector, HDD data cable
Slave connector, HDD data cable
Master connector, CD-ROM data cable
Slave connector, CD-ROM data cable

Mode

0

1

2

3

4

Cycle time (ns)

600

383

240

180

120

Transfer rate (MBytes/s)

3.33

5.22

8.33

11.1

16.7

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