4serial-ata interface, 1 native pci ide controller, 2 raid/ahci controller – Kontron pITX-SP User Manual

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Serial-ATA Interface


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Serial-ATA Interface

The Serial-ATA controller supports two operating modes: a native PCI IDE controller and a RAID/AHCI con-
troller.

4.1

Native PCI IDE Controller

In this mode no drivers are needed for a Windows

®

installation. Interrupt and I/O-addresses can take any

value (except the known legacy settings 0x1F0/0x170 respectively IRQ14/15).
Diagnostic tools which bypass the INT13 and directly access registers may cause uncontrolled behaviors.
We strongly advise against the use of such tools.

Attention:

For a bootable drive the Option ROM must be enabled.

4.2

RAID/AHCI Controller

The RAID functionality is not supported but the driver and Option ROM use this expression. A Windows

®

installation without S-ATA drivers is not possible. To install Windows

®

XP on a Serial-ATA harddisk the file

TXTSETUP.OEM must be supplemented. Without any addition Windows

®

expects the driver on a legacy

floppy drive. The following modifications allows the installation from a USB floppy drive.

;--The following lines give additional USB floppy support

id = "USB\VID_03F0&PID_2001", "usbstor" #--HP

id = "USB\VID_08BD&PID_1100", "usbstor" #--Iomega

id = "USB\VID_0409&PID_0040", "usbstor" #--NEC

id = "USB\VID_055D&PID_2020", "usbstor" #--Samsung

id = "USB\VID_0424&PID_0FDC", "usbstor" #--SMSC

id = "USB\VID_054C&PID_002C", "usbstor" #--Sony

id = "USB\VID_057B&PID_0001", "usbstor" #--Y-E Data

If a USB floppy drive is still not detected properly the parameters can be determined as follows:
Plugin the USB floppy drive on any Desktop PC running the Windows

®

XP operating system and open the

device manager in the system control panel. The floppy drive should be listed below the entry

Universal

Serial Bus Controller. Goto it's properties, select the details tab, then Hardware IDs where you can see
USB\VID_ ... &PID_ .... These values must be added as a new line to the file TXTSETUP.OEM.
Presumeably this addition must correspond with the file

USBSTOR.INF. If the floppy drive identification is

not implemented in this file the installation might fail.

Manufacturer

ID in USBSTOR.INF available

HP

Iomega

Indefinite

NEC

Samsung

Indefinite

SMSC

Sony

Y-E Data

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