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Menu 5: ide master and ide slave configuration – IEI Integration PPC-37xx-N270 v2.20 User Manual

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BIOS Menu 5: IDE Master and IDE Slave Configuration

Auto-Detected Drive Parameters

The “grayed-out” items in the left frame are IDE disk drive parameters automatically

detected from the firmware of the selected IDE disk drive. The drive parameters are listed

as follows:

Device: Lists the device type (e.g. hard disk, CD-ROM etc.)

Type: Indicates the type of devices a user can manually select

Vendor: Lists the device manufacturer

Size: List the storage capacity of the device.

LBA Mode: Indicates whether the LBA (Logical Block Addressing) is a

method of addressing data on a disk drive is supported or not.

Block Mode: Block mode boosts IDE drive performance by increasing the

amount of data transferred. Only 512 bytes of data can be transferred per