Table 3 Computer Setup—Storage (continued)
| Diskette Type (Legacy Diskettes only) |
| Identifies the highest capacity media type accepted by the diskette drive. Options are 3.5" 1.44 MB |
| and 5.25" 1.2 MB. |
| Drive Emulation |
| Allows you to select a drive emulation type for a certain storage device. (For example, a Zip drive |
| can be made bootable by selecting diskette emulation.) |
| Emulation Type |
| ATAPI Zip drive: |
| ● None (treated as Other). |
| ● Diskette (treated as diskette drive). |
| Legacy Diskette: No emulation options available. |
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| ATAPI |
| ● None (treated as Other). |
| ● Diskette (treated as diskette drive). |
| Hard Disk |
| ● None (prevents BIOS data accesses and disables it as a boot device). |
| ● Hard Disk (treated as hard disk). |
| Multisector Transfers (ATA disks only) |
| Specifies how many sectors are transferred per |
| device capabilities) are Disabled, 8, and 16. |
| Translation Mode (ATA disks only) |
| Lets you select the translation mode to be used for the device. This enables the BIOS to access |
| disks partitioned and formatted on other systems and may be necessary for users of older versions |
| of UNIX (e.g., SCO UNIX version 3.2). Options are Automatic, |
| None. |
| CAUTION: Ordinarily, the translation mode selected automatically by the BIOS should not be |
| changed. If the selected translation mode is not compatible with the translation mode that was active |
| when the disk was partitioned and formatted, the data on the disk will be inaccessible. |
| Translation Parameters (ATA disks only) |
| NOTE: This feature appears only when User translation mode is selected. |
| Allows you to specify the parameters (logical cylinders, heads, and sectors per track) used by the |
| BIOS to translate disk I/O requests (from the operating system or an application) into terms the hard |
| drive can accept. Logical cylinders may not exceed 1024. The number of heads may not exceed |
| 256. The number of sectors per track may not exceed 63. These fields are only visible and |
| changeable when the drive translation mode is set to User. |
| SATA Default Values |
| Allows you to specify the default values for the Multisector Transfers, Transfer Mode, and Translation |
| Mode for ATA devices. |
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Storage Options | Removable Media Boot |
| Enables/disables ability to boot the system from removable media. |
| Legacy Diskette Write |
| Enables/disables ability to write data to legacy diskettes. |
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4 Computer Setup (F10) Utility | ENWW |
