Setting System Parameters 4-9IDE AdaptersIDE adapters control the IDE devices, such as IDE harddisk drives and IDE CD-ROM readers, in your system.Your system uses two IDE controllers integrated on thesystem board.Setup supports up to four IDE devices, with an IDE adapterfor each of the following configurations:1 Master1 Master, 1 Slave2 Masters2 Masters, 1 Slave2 Masters, 2 SlavesThe master/slave combination for a standard hard diskconfiguration is “1 Master.” If you add a hard disk to thefast IDE port (IDE1 connector), the combination becomes“1 Master, 1 Slave.” Change the jumper setting on the IDEdevice to set the device to master or slave (see thedocumentation that comes with the device).For multimedia systems, the IDE hard disk and CD-ROMreader are both “Masters.” The hard disk drive is the“Master” on the primary connector and the CD-ROMreader is the “Master” on the secondary connector. If youadd an IDE hard disk to the system, the combinationbecomes “2 Masters, 1 Slave.”NOTEIf you change the CD-ROM reader setting inthe multimedia configuration, the CONFIG.SYS andAUTOEXEC.BAT require changes as well.
