Asus K8V-F, VIA VT8237, VIA K8T800 manual Primary/Secondary IDE Master/Slave

2.3.4 Primary/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.

IDE			Select the type of
Primary IDE Master			Select the type of
			device	to the
Device	: Hard Disk		device connected	to the
			system.
	: Hard Disk
Vendor	:: ST320413A		system.
Size	: 20.0GB
Size	: 20.0GB
LBA Mode	:
LBA Mode	: Supported
Block Mode	: 16
Block Mode	: 16 Sectors
PIO Mode	:
PIO Mode	: Supported
Async DMA	:	DMA-2
Async DMA	: MultiWord	DMA-2
Ultra DMA	: Ultra DMA-5
Ultra DMA	: Ultra DMA-5
SMART
SMART Monitoring: Supported
Type			[Auto]
TypeLBA/Large Mode			[Auto]
LBA/LargeBlock (MultiMode-Sector Transfer)			[Auto]
BlockPIO Mode(Multi-Sector Transfer)			[Auto]
PIODMA Mode			[Auto]
DMASMARTModeMonitoring			[Auto]
SMART32Bit MonitoringData Transfer			[Auto][Disabled]
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. Configuration options: [Auto] [Not Installed] [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: [Auto] [Disabled]

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: [Auto] [Disabled]

PIO Mode [Auto]

Selects the PIO mode. Configuration options: [Auto] [0] [1] [2] [3] [4]

DMA Mode [Auto]

Selects the DMA mode. Configuration options: [Auto] [SWDMA0] [SWDMA1] [SWDMA2] [MWDMA0] [MWDMA1] [MWDMA2] [UDMA0] [UDMA1] [UDMA2] [UDMA3] [UDMA4] [UDMA5] [UDMA6]

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