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Operations Manual

COM1/COM2/COM3/COM4 to serial port 1 or 2.

Most BIOS' also allow you to set the I/O and IRQ but this is mostly done automatically.

6.7.1.3 Floppy Drives

The floppy drive(s) can be enabled or disabled in the BIOS. The BIOS also allows you to choose the capacity of the media.

•360 KB 5.25-inch

•1.2 MB 5.25-inch

•720 KB 3.5-inch

•1.44 MB 3.5-inch

•2.88 MB 3.5-inch

Some BIOS' allow you to swap A: and B: and disable seeking a floppy disk for a boot sector during startup.

6.7.1.4Hard Drives

Most modern BIOS' allow automatic detection of disk parameters. The settings can be individually configured for the primary master and slave device and the secondary master and slave device. The following are some of the primary settings that apply to hard drives as well as CD/DVD-ROM drives, tape backup drive, etc.

Common disk types are:

•User-defined Cylinders, Heads, Sectors (CHS) values

•Auto-automatically detects hard disks parameters at every startup

•1-46-predefined combinations of CHS values

•CDROM-used for AT Attachment Packet Interface (ATAPI) CD-ROM drives

•ARMD-used for ATAPI ZIP and LS 120 drives

•DVDROM

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