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Chapter 2: BIOS Information

2.3.4 Primary, Secondary, Third, Fourth IDE

Master/Slave

While entering Setup, BIOS automatically detects the presence of IDE devices.

There is a separate sub-menu for each IDE device. Select a device item then press

to display the IDE device information.

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.

Configuration options: [Auto] [Not Installed] [CDROM] [ARMD]

LBA/Large Mode [Auto]

Enables or disables the LBA/Large mode. Setting to Auto enables the LBA/Large

mode if the device supports this mode, and if the device was not previously

formatted with LBA mode disabled. Configuration options: [Auto] [Disabled]

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: [Auto] [Disabled]

PIO Mode [Auto]

Selects the PIO mode. Configuration options: [Auto] [0] [1] [2] [3] [4]

Primary IDE Master

Device : Hard Disk

Vendor : ST340014A

Size : 40.0GB

LBA Mode : Supported

Block Mode : 16 Sectors

PIO Mode : 4

Async DMA : MultiWord DMA-2

Ultra DMA : Ultra DMA-5

SMART Monitoring: Supported

Select the type

of device connected

to the system.

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]

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