Table A-1. System Setup Categories

Category

Function

Time

Resets time on system’s internal clock.

 

 

Date

Resets date on system’s internal calendar.

 

 

Diskette Drive A

Identifies type of diskette drives installed. Cat-

Diskette Drive B

egory options always match physical locations

 

of drives in system unit. Tape drives are not

 

reflected in these categories.

 

 

Drive A Location

Identifies which diskette drive is used as the

 

boot drive.

 

 

Drives:

Identifies drives attached to the IDE1 and

Primary

IDE2 connectors on system board. Each EIDE

Secondary

connector supports two EIDE drives (Drive 0

 

and Drive 1).

 

For EIDE hard-disk drives, the system pro-

 

vides an automatic drive-type detect feature.

 

To use this feature, highlight the appropriate

 

drive category and type a (for automatic).

 

If none of the supported drive types match the

 

parameters of the new drive, enter the parame-

 

ters directly. To do so, highlight the

 

appropriate drive category (Drive 0 and Drive 1)

 

and type u to display User1. Press <Tab> to

 

highlight each of the parameter fields in suc-

 

cession, and enter the appropriate number for

 

each field.

 

NOTE: For EIDE devices such as EIDE

 

CD-ROM drives and EIDE tape drives that are

 

using the built-in EIDE controller, set the

 

appropriate Drive category to Auto.

 

 

Base Memory

Displays amount of memory available to

 

MS-DOS programs that do not use extended or

 

expanded memory.

 

 

Extended Memory

Displays amount of memory available as

 

extended memory.

 

 

System Setup Program

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