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Primary Slave Submenu of the Main Menu

The Primary Slave submenu is for the internal CD-ROM drive. The drive type is displayed on this menu as well as the Main menu. Your notebook auto-senses the charac- teristics of the internal CD-ROM Drive installed.

Note that, although Auto is the default setting for this submenu, the Hard Disk setting is illustrated, since it contains all of the menu fields.

The actual hard drive label shown may vary.

PhoenixBIOS Setup Utility

Main

 

 

 

 

 

 

Primary Slave [TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-C2402-(PS)]

Item Specific Help

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Type:

[Auto]

Select ATA/ATAPI drive

 

 

 

 

installed here.

 

 

Multi-Sector Transfers:

[Disabled]

 

 

 

LBA Mode Control:

[Disabled]

[Auto]

 

 

PIO Transfer Mode:

[Fast PIO 4]

The BIOS auto-types the

 

 

DMA Transfer Mode:

[Ultra DMA 2]

drive on boot time.

 

 

 

 

Except [Auto]

 

 

 

 

You enter parameters of

 

 

 

 

the drive.

 

 

 

 

[None]

 

 

 

 

The drive is disabled.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

F1

Help

Select

Item

ESC

Exit

Select

Menu

-/Space

Change

Values

Enter

Select

▲ Sub-Menu

F9 Setup Defaults

F10 Save and Exit

Figure 3. Primary Slave Submenu

Table 3: Fields, Options and Defaults for the Primary Slave Submenu of the Main Menu

Menu Field

Options

Default

Description

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Type:

■

Auto

[Auto]

Selects the ATA/ATAPI device type. Select Auto to have the type

 

■

None

 

automatically identified by the BIOS at POST. If None is selected, all

 

■

CD-ROM

 

of the following Set-up items do not appear. Select CD-ROM or

 

■

Hard Disk

 

Hard Disk for appropriate drive type installed at this connection.

 

 

 

 

 

Cylinders:

■

A number

–—

This item appears only when Hard Disk is selected. When Hard Disk

 

 

between 0

 

is selected, you can change the value. This field is changed by

 

 

and 65,535

 

incrementing (pressing the [Spacebar]) or by typing in the number.

 

 

 

 

 

Heads:

■

A number

–—

This item appears only when Hard Disk is selected. When Hard Disk

 

 

between 1

 

is selected, you can change the value. This field is changed by

 

 

and 16

 

incrementing (pressing the [Spacebar]) or by typing in the number.

 

 

 

 

 

Sectors:

■

A number

–—

This item appears only when Hard Disk is selected. When Hard Disk

 

 

between 0

 

is selected, you can change the value. This field is changed by

 

 

and 63

 

incrementing (pressing the [Spacebar]) or by typing in the number.

 

 

 

 

 

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i Series specifications

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