DISKS MENU
The Disks menu allows you to set information about your system’s hard- and
■Enable or disable internal floppy disk drive controller
■Configure multiple diskette drives, if applicable.
■Enable or disable the internal hard disk controller
■Select the timing for hard disk drive and data transfers.
■Enable or disable hard disk drive security
✓Internal FDC Diskette Drives 
✓Internal HDC
IDE Settings __ HDD Security
Figure 9. Disks Menu
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Internal | [Checked] | This item enables or disables the | |
FDC |
| internal floppy disk drive control- | |
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| ler. It is enabled by default. | |
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Diskette | When selected, opens the | ||
Drives |
| Diskette Drives submenu. This | |
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| would be used only if more than | |
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| one diskette drive is installed or | |
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| connected. | |
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Internal | [Checked] | This item enables or disables the | |
HDC |
| internal hard disk drive controller. | |
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| It is enabled by default. | |
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IDE | When selected, opens the IDE Set- | ||
Settings |
| tings submenu, which allows you | |
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| to select the timing and data | |
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| transfer rates of the hard disk | |
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| drive. (For more details, see IDE | |
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| Settings submenu later in this sec- | |
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| tion). | |
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HDD | [Unchecked] | Enables or disables the hard disk | |
Security |
| drive security feature. It is disabled | |
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| by default. The HDD security fea- | |
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| ture attaches the administrator’s | |
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| password to the hard drive so that | |
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| if it is installed in a different sys- | |
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| tem, the password will still be | |
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| required to access its contents. | |
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D i s k s M e n u
IDE Settings Submenu
The IDE Settings submenu allows you to select the timing speed for the system hard disk drive, as well as the data transfer rates.
IDE Settings
HDD Timing
( ) Standard
( ) Fast PIO
( ) Multiword DMA
( ) Ultra DMA
(*)
I/O 32 bit transfer ( ) Disabled
(*) Enabled
HDD Block transfer
( ) Disabled
(*) Enabled
OKCancel
Figure 10. IDE Settings submenu
The IDE Settings submenu is divided into three sections:
HDD Timing:
■Standard
■Fast PIO
■Multiword DMA
■Ultra DMA
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I/O 32 bit transfer:
This field is Enabled by default. When it is disabled, the bit transfer is I/O 16 bit transfer.
HDD Block transfer:
This field is Enabled by default. When it is disabled, system access to the hard disk drive is one sector per Read/Write.
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