1. Compliance with ATA-2 specification
| Required |
2. Support Int 13h Extensions in BIOS and option ROMs
| Required |
3. Media Status Notification support v. 1.03 or higher
| Required |
4. Dual IDE adapters run in Native mode with PCI IDE bus mastering
| Required |
5. Dual IDE adapters use single FIFO with asynchronous access or dual FIFOs and channels
| Required |
6. Support for LBA in system BIOS
| Required |
7. PCI IDE bus master DMA compliant with SFF 8038i
| Recommended |
8. Support for fast PIO modes
| Required if no bus mastering |
9. Support SFF 8020i Section 10.0 (Cable Select) for master-slave configuration
| Required |
10. Pin 1 cable designation for connections
| Required |