2.3.4 Primary and Secondary IDE Master/Slave

While entering Setup, BIOS auto-detects the presence of IDE devices. There is a separate sub-menu for each IDE device. Select a device item then press <Enter> to display the IDE device information.

Primary IDE Master

 

Device

: Hard Disk

Select the type

Vendor

: Maxtor 6Y080L0

of device connected

Size

: 81.9GB

to the system

LBA Mode

: Supported

 

Block Mode

: 16 Sectors

 

PIO Mode

: 4

 

Async DMA

: MultiWord DMA-2

Ultra DMA

: Ultra DMA-5

 

SMART Monitoring: Supported

 

Type

 

[Auto]

LBA/Large Mode

 

[Auto]

Block(Multi-sector Transfer)

[Auto]

PIO Mode

 

[Auto]

DMA Mode

 

[Auto]

Smart Monitoring

[Auto]

32Bit Data Transfer

[Disabled]

The values opposite the dimmed items (Device, Vendor, Size, LBA Mode, Block Mode, PIO Mode, Async DMA, Ultra DMA, and SMART monitoring) are auto- detected by BIOS and 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. Setting to Auto allows automatic selection of the appropriate IDE device type. Select CDROM if you are specifically configuring a CD-ROM drive. Select ARMD (ATAPI Removable Media Device) if your device is either a ZIP, LS-120, or MO drive.

Configuration options: [Not Installed] [Auto] [CDROM] [ARMD] LBA/Large Mode [Auto]

Enables or disables the LBA mode. Setting to Auto enables the LBA mode if the device supports this mode, and if the device was not previously formatted with LBA mode disabled. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Auto]

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: [Disabled] [Auto]

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