Primary/Secondary IDE Master and Slave Submenu

Feature

Choices

Description

 

 

 

Type

Auto

Auto forces the server to attempt autodetection of the drive type.

 

None

None informs the server to ignore this drive.

 

CD-ROM

CD ROM allows the manual entry of some fields described below.

 

IDE Removable

IDE Removable allows the manual entry of some fields described

 

 

below.

 

ATAPI Removable

ATAPI Removable allows the manual entry of some fields

 

 

described below.

 

User

User allows the manual entry of all fields described below.

 

 

 

CHS Format

 

 

 

 

 

Cylinders

0 to 65535

Number of Cylinders on Drive.

 

 

This field is changeable only for Type User.

 

 

 

Heads

1 to 16

Number of read/write heads on drive.

 

 

This field is available only for Type User.

 

 

 

Sectors

0 to 63

Number of sectors per track.

 

 

This field is available only for Type User.

 

 

 

Maximum

N/A

Computed size of drive from cylinders, heads, and sectors

Capacity

 

entered. This field is informational only.

 

 

 

LBA Format

 

 

 

 

 

Total Sectors

N/A

This field is informational only.

 

 

 

Maximum

N/A

This field is informational only.

Capacity

 

 

 

 

 

Multi-Sector

Disabled

Determines the number of sectors per block for multi-sector

Transfer

2, 4, 8, or 16

transfers.

 

sectors

This field is informational only for Type Auto.

 

 

 

LBA Mode

Disabled

Enabling LBA causes logical block addressing to be used in place

Control

Enabled

of cylinders, heads, and sectors.

 

 

This field is informational only for Type Auto.

 

 

 

32 Bit I/O

Disabled

Enabling allows 32 bit IDE data transfers.

 

Enabled

 

 

 

 

Transfer Mode

Standard

Selects the method for moving data to and from the drive.

 

Fast PIO 1

This field is informational only for Type Auto.

 

Fast PIO 2

 

 

Fast PIO 3

 

 

Fast PIO 4

 

 

FPIO 3 / DMA 1

 

 

FPIO 4 / DMA 2

 

 

 

 

Ultra DMA

Disabled

Selects the Ultra DMA mode used for moving data to/from

Mode

Mode 0

the drive.

 

Mode 1

 

 

Mode 2

 

 

 

 

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