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In the last few years, the available range of operating systems one lead is interrupted between the connectors for the two
for PCs has increased dramatically. Various free (!) operating disk drives, or the relevant pin is omitted from the connector.
systems have been added to the list, such as BeOS, OpenBSD This causes a low level to be present on the CS pin of one of
and Linux. These systems are also available in different the drives and a high level to be present on the CS pin of the
colours and flavours (versions and distributions). Windows is other one (at the far end of the cable).
also no longer simply Windows, because there are now sev- The circuit shown here is connected to the IDE bus of the
eral different versions (Windows 95, 98, ME, NT and XP). Com- motherboard via connector K1. Most of the signals are fed
puter users thus have a large variety of options with regard to directly from K1 to the other connectors (K2 and K3). An IDE
the operating system to be used. One problem is that not all hard disk is connected to K2, and a second one is connected
hardware works equally well under the various operating sys- to K3. When the computer is switched on or reset, a pulse will
tems, and with regard to software, compatibility is far from appear on the RESET line of the IDE interface. This pulse
being universal. In other words, it’s difficult to make a good clocks flip-flop IC1a, and depending on the state of switch S1,
choice. the Q output will go either high or low. The state on the Q out-
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