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Chapter 5: BIOS setup

Primary/Tertiary/Fourth.IDE.Master/Slave

The BIOS automatically detects the connected IDE devices. There is a separate

sub-menu for each IDE device. Select a device item, then press to display

the IDE device information.

Select Screen

Select Item

+- Change Option

F1 General Help

F10 Save and Exit

ESC Exit

BIOS SETUP UTILITY

Main

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Primary IDE Master

Device : Hard Disk

Vendor : HDS722580VLSA80

Size : 82.0GB

LBA Mode : Supported

Block Mode : 16 Sectors

PIO Mode : 4

Async DMA : MultiWord DMA-2

Ultra DMA : Ultra DMA-5

SMART Monitoring: Supported

Type

[Auto]

LBA/Large Mode

[Auto]

Block(Multi-sector Transfer)M [Auto]

PIO Mode

[Auto]

DMA Mode

[Auto]

SMART Monitoring

[Auto]

32Bit Data Transfer

[Enabled]

Select the type of

device connected to

the system.

The BIOS automatically detects the values opposite the dimmed items (Device,

Vendor, Size, LBA Mode, Block Mode, PIO Mode, Async DMA, Ultra DMA, and

SMART monitoring). These values 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. Setting to [Auto] allows automatic selection

of the appropriate IDE device type. Select [CDROM] if you are specifically

configuring a CD-ROM drive. Select [ARMD] (ATAPI Removable Media

Device) if your device is either a ZIP, LS-120, or MO 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) M [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]