Primary Master and Slave Submenu

In Table 11, the features other than “Type” appear only for Type Auto, if a drive is detected.

Table 11: Primary IDE Master and Slave Submenu

Field

Options

Description

Type

Auto

Auto allows the system to attempt autodetection

 

None

of the drive type.

 

CD-ROM

None informs the system to ignore this drive.

 

IDE Removable

CD-ROM allows the manual entry of fields

 

ATAPI Removable

described below.

 

User

User allows the manual entry of all fields described

 

 

below.

 

 

 

Cylinders

1 to 2048

Number of Cylinders on Drive.

 

 

This field is changeable only for Type User.

 

 

This field is strictly informational for Type Auto.

 

 

 

Heads

1 to 16

Number of read/write heads on drive.

 

 

This field is available only for Type User.

 

 

This field is strictly informational for Type Auto.

 

 

 

Sectors

1 to 64

Number of sectors per track.

 

 

This field is available only for Type User.

 

 

This field is strictly informational for Type Auto.

 

 

 

Maximum

N/A

Computed size of drive from cylinders, heads, and

Capacity

 

sectors entered.

 

 

This field is available only for Type User.

 

 

This field is strictly informational for Type Auto.

 

 

 

Multi-Sector

Disabled

Determines the number of sectors per block for

Transfers

2, 4, 8, or 16 sectors

multisector transfers.

 

 

This field is strictly informational for Type Auto.

 

 

 

LBA Mode

Disabled

Enabling LBA causes logical block addressing to

Control

Enabled

be used in place of cylinders, heads, and sectors.

 

 

This field is strictly informational for Type Auto.

 

 

 

32 Bit I/O

Disabled

Enabling allows 32-bit IDE data transfers.

 

Enabled

This field is strictly informational for Type Auto.

 

 

 

Transfer Mode

Standard

Selects the method for moving data to and from

 

Fast PIO 1

the drive.

 

Fast PIO 2

This field is strictly informational for Type Auto.

 

Fast PIO 3

 

 

Fast PIO 4

 

 

 

 

Ultra DMA

Disabled

For use with Ultra DMA drives.

 

Enabled

This field is strictly information for Type Auto.

 

 

 

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