Primary IDE Master

Primary IDE Slave

Secondary IDE Master

Secondary IDE Slave

While entering Setup, BIOS auto-detects the presence of IDE devices. These fields display the information of the detected IDE devices.

These items have sub-menus. Select an item then press Enter to display the specific sub-menu.

The values opposite the dimmed items Device, Vendor, Size, LBA Mode, Block Mode, PIO Mode, Async DMA, Ultra DMA, and S.M.A.R.T. 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. 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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Chapter 4: BIOS Setup