Ampro Corporation COM 830 Primary/Secondary IDE Master/Slave Submenu, Atapi Cdrom, A.R.T, Cd/Dvd

Chapter 4			BIOS Setup Description
Primary/Secondary IDE Master/Slave Submenu
	Feature	Options	Description
	Device	Hard Disk	Displays the type of drive detected. The 'grayed-out' items
		ATAPI CDROM	below are the IDE disk drive parameters taken from the
			firmware of the IDE disk.
	Vendor	no option	Manufacturer of the device.
	Size	no option	Total size of the device.
	LBA Mode	supported	Shows whether the device supports Logical Block
		not supported	Addressing.
	Block Mode	number of sectors	Block mode boosts IDE performance by increasing the
			amount of data transfered. Only 512 byte of data can be
			transfered per interrupt if block mode is not used. Block
			mode allows transfers of up to 64 kB per interrupt.
	PIO Mode	0, 1, 2, 3, 4	IDE PIO mode programs timing cycles between the IDE
			drive and the programmable IDE controller. As the PIO mode
			increases, the cycle time decreases.
	Async DMA	no option	This indicates the highest Asynchronous DMA Mode that is
			supported.
	Ultra DMA	no option	This indicates the highest Synchronous DMA Mode that is
			supported.
	S.M.A.R.T	no option	Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology protocol
			used by IDE drives of some manufacturers to predict drive
			failures.
	Type	Not Installed	Sets the type of device that the BIOS attempts to boot from
		Auto	after the POST has completed.
		CD/DVD	Not Installed prevents the BIOS from searching for an IDE
		ARMD
			disk.
			Auto allows the BIOS to auto detect the IDE disk drive type.
			CD/DVD specifies that an IDE CD/DVD drive is attached.
			The BIOS will not attempt to search for other types of IDE
			disk drives.
			ARMD specifies an ATAPI Removable Media Device. This
			includes, but is not limited to ZIP and LS-120.
	LBA/Large	Disabled	Set to AUTO to let the BIOS auto detect LBA mode control.
	Mode	Auto	Set to Disabled to prevent the BIOS from using LBA mode.
	Block	Disabled	Set to AUTO to let the BIOS auto detect device support for
	(Multi-Sector	Auto	multi sector transfer. The data transfer to and from the device
			will occur multiple (the number of sectors, see above) sectors
	Transfer)
			at a time.
			Set to Disabled to prevent the BIOS from using block mode.
			The data transfer to and from the device will occur one sector
			at a time.
	PIO Mode	Auto	Set to AUTO to let the BIOS auto detect the supported PIO
		0, 1, 2, 3, 4	mode.

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