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Chapter 4: BIOS Setup
Primary IDE Master
Primary IDE Slave
Secondary IDE Master
Secondary IDE Slave
While entering Setup, BIOS auto-detects the presence of IDE devices.
These fields display the information of the detected IDE devices.
These items have sub-menus. Select an item then press Enter to display
the specific sub-menu.
The values opposite the dimmed items Device, Vendor, Size, LBA Mode,
Block Mode, PIO Mode, Async DMA, Ultra DMA, and S.M.A.R.T. are auto-
detected by BIOS and are not user-configurable.These items show N/A if
no IDE device is installed in the system.
Type [Auto]
Selects the type of IDE drive. Configuration options: [Not Installed]
[Auto] [CDROM] [ARMD]
LBA/Large Mode [Auto]
Enables or disables the LBA mode. Setting to Auto enables the LBA
mode if the device supports this mode, and if the device was not
previously formatted with LBA mode disabled. Configuration options:
[Disabled] [Auto]
Block (Multi-sector Transfer) [Auto]
Enables or disables data multi-sectors transfers. When set to Auto, the
data transfer from and to the device occurs multiple sectors at a time if
the device supports multi-sector transfer feature. When set to
Disabled, the data transfer from and to the device occurs one sector at
a time. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Auto]