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Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: Arcticfox on July 17, 2004, 02:46:05 PM

Title: UIDE
Post by: Arcticfox on July 17, 2004, 02:46:05 PM

I have a motherboard which has 4 sockets.  Two are IDE sockets with which I am well familiar, the other two are identified in the manual as being 'UIDE'.  Question is, what are UIDE and what is their significance?

Regards
Arcticfox

Title: Re: UIDE
Post by: merlin_2 on July 18, 2004, 06:55:19 PM

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/U/UIDE.html

Title: Re: UIDE
Post by: Arcticfox on July 19, 2004, 01:49:45 AM

Thanks for the reply.  Following your link produced "Your search produced no results. Search again?".  That was to easy, I had been down that route.   :)

Regards
Reg

Title: Re: UIDE
Post by: MalikTous on July 19, 2004, 12:04:21 PM

Nice mainboard, 4 ATAPI connections!

The 'UIDE' ports are for your high speed Ultra IDE hard drives. You connect 80-line Ultra DMA IDE cables between the UIDE sockets and your DMA-66, 100, 133, or faster hard drives. You connect slower devices like CDROMs and older hard drives (DMA-33 or slower, and PIO only drives) to the other two IDE ports. DVD drives may run better on a UIDE port.

Make sure your BIOS settings enable the high speed drives.