Fujitsu A1010 manual Disks Menu, IDE Settings Submenu

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DISKS MENU

The Disks menu allows you to set information about your system’s hard- and floppy-disks, including:

Enable or disable internal floppy disk drive controller

Configure multiple diskette drives, if applicable.

Enable or disable the internal hard disk controller

Select the timing for hard disk drive and data transfers.

Enable or disable hard disk drive security

Internal FDC Diskette Drives

Internal HDC

IDE Settings __ HDD Security

Figure 9. Disks Menu

Menu

Default

Description

Field

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Internal

[Checked]

This item enables or disables the

FDC

 

internal floppy disk drive control-

 

 

ler. It is enabled by default.

 

 

 

Diskette

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When selected, opens the

Drives

 

Diskette Drives submenu. This

 

 

would be used only if more than

 

 

one diskette drive is installed or

 

 

connected.

 

 

 

Internal

[Checked]

This item enables or disables the

HDC

 

internal hard disk drive controller.

 

 

It is enabled by default.

 

 

 

IDE

–—

When selected, opens the IDE Set-

Settings

 

tings submenu, which allows you

 

 

to select the timing and data

 

 

transfer rates of the hard disk

 

 

drive. (For more details, see IDE

 

 

Settings submenu later in this sec-

 

 

tion).

 

 

 

HDD

[Unchecked]

Enables or disables the hard disk

Security

 

drive security feature. It is disabled

 

 

by default. The HDD security fea-

 

 

ture attaches the administrator’s

 

 

password to the hard drive so that

 

 

if it is installed in a different sys-

 

 

tem, the password will still be

 

 

required to access its contents.

 

 

 

D i s k s M e n u

IDE Settings Submenu

The IDE Settings submenu allows you to select the timing speed for the system hard disk drive, as well as the data transfer rates.

IDE Settings

HDD Timing

( ) Standard

( ) Fast PIO

( ) Multiword DMA

( ) Ultra DMA

(*) ATA-66/100

I/O 32 bit transfer ( ) Disabled

(*) Enabled

HDD Block transfer

( ) Disabled

(*) Enabled

OKCancel

Figure 10. IDE Settings submenu

The IDE Settings submenu is divided into three sections:

HDD Timing:

Standard

Fast PIO

Multiword DMA

Ultra DMA

ATA-66/100

I/O 32 bit transfer:

This field is Enabled by default. When it is disabled, the bit transfer is I/O 16 bit transfer.

HDD Block transfer:

This field is Enabled by default. When it is disabled, system access to the hard disk drive is one sector per Read/Write.

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