How do you find out info about the IDE?

[Odis]

I know it sounds strange, but if when installing some software that asked for IDE, what would you enter? Where do you get the information from to know what to enter?

 

[jrbarnett]

Hi,

There are two contexts where IDE is used in computing (that I know of):
Integrated Development Environment - is typically used with command line programming software for easy running command line compilers, debuggers etc.
This is more likely as the second meaning is Integrated Drive Electronics - which is the interface by which hard disks and CD-ROM's/DVD's etc connect to the computer on most modern systems.

John

 

[bcastner]

Are you absolutely sure it is asking about your disk controllers? In any case these are usually enumerated as 0, and 1; with the first device 0 and the second device 1 on each channel. This is a nearly universal numbering scheme called ARC, and you can see this in your BOOT.INI file as it is how XP knows where to try and load.

The reason I ask is that if a software asked me for information about my IDE I would answer "Visual Studio .NET" The software development software is often referred to as the IDE.