SE7210TP1-E Datasheet, PDF (59/145 Pages) Intel Corporation – Intel® Server Board Technical Product Specification

Intel® Server Board SE7210TP1-E TPS
System BIOS
4.3 Resource Configuration
4.3.1
PCI Autoconfiguration
The BIOS can automatically configure PCI devices. PCI devices may be on-board or add-in
cards. Autoconfiguration lets a user insert or remove PCI cards without having to configure the
system. When a user turns on the system after adding a PCI card, the BIOS automatically
configures interrupts, the I/O space, and other system resources. Any interrupts set to Available
in Setup are considered to be available for use by the add-in card. Autoconfiguration information
is stored in ESCD format.
4.3.2
PCI IDE Support
If Auto is selected from the BIOS Setup program, the BIOS automatically sets up the two
PCI IDE connectors with independent I/O channel support. The IDE interface supports hard
drives up to ATA-66/100 and recognizes any ATAPI compliant devices, including CD-ROM
drives, tape drives, and Ultra DMA. The BIOS determines the capabilities of each drive and
configures them to optimize capacity and performance.
To take advantage of the high capacities typically available today, hard drives are automatically
configured for Logical Block Addressing (LBA) and to PIO Mode 3 or 4, depending on the
capability of the drive. The user can override the auto-configuration options by specifying
manual configuration in the BIOS Setup program.
To use ATA-66/100 features the following items are required:
• An ATA-66/100 peripheral device
• An ATA-66/100 compatible cable
• ATA-66/100 operating system device drivers
✏ ^NOTES
ATA-66/100 compatible cables are backward compatible with drives using slower IDE
transfer protocols. If an ATA-66/100 disk drive and a disk drive using any other IDE transfer
protocol are attached to the same cable, the maximum transfer rate between the drives is
reduced to that of the slowest device.
Do not connect an ATA device as a slave on the same IDE cable as an ATAPI master
device. For example, do not connect an ATA hard drive as a slave to an ATAPI CD-ROM
drive.
4.4 System Management BIOS (SMBIOS)
SMBIOS is a Server Management Interface (SMI) compliant method for managing servers in a
managed network.
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