NEC MH4500 - Manual (Page 49)

Configuring Your System 3-5
Main Menu
Feature Choices Description Your Setting
described.
Language English (US)
Spanish, Italian
French, German,
Japanese (Kanji) Selects which language BIOS
displays in.
Primary IDE Master and Slave Submenu
The following table shows the settings for the Primary IDE Master and Slave
submenu.
Primary IDE Master and Slave Submenu
Feature Choices Description Your Setting
Type Auto
None
CD-ROM
IDE Removable
ATAPI Removable
User
Auto allows the system to attempt
auto-detection of the drive type.
None informs the system to ignore
this drive.
Allows the manual entry of some
fields described below.
User allows the manual entry of all
fields described below.
Cylinders 1 to 2048 Number of cylinders on drive. This
field is changeable only for Type
User.
Heads 1 to 64 Number of read/write heads on
drive. This field is changeable only
for Type User.
Sectors 1 to 64 Number of sectors per track. This
field is changeable only for Type
User.
Maximum Capacity N/A Computed drive size. This field is
informational only for Type User.
Multi-Sector Transfer Disabled
2, 4, 8, or 16 sectors Determines the number of sectors
per block for multi-sector transfers.
This field is informational only for
Type Auto.
LBA Mode Control Disabled
Enabled Enabling LBA causes logical block
addressing to be used in place of
cylinders, heads, and sectors. This
field is informational only for Type
Auto.
32 Bit I/O Disabled
Enabled Enabling allows 32 bit IDE data
transfers.
Transfer Mode Standard
Fast PIO 1
Fast PIO 2
Fast PIO 3
Fast PIO 4 Selects the method for moving data
to and from the drive. This field is
informational only for Type Auto.