T e c h n i c a l I n f o r m a t i o n

Floppy disk drives

This is available purely to change the mode of the floppy drive. The drive supplied and fitted is a 3.5inch 1.44 Mbyte. This setting, if changed, could prevent software access to the fitted drive.

Hard disk drives

Hard disk type is auto detected on switch on, but various parameters can be manually set for each drive, the system being capable of controlling two HDD’s ;

HDD 0

The system hard drives are normally attached to

HDD 1

the primary PCI IDE interface. The system is

 

supplied with a master HDD (HDD 0)

CDROM 2

The CD-ROM drives are included in this section

CDROM 3

as most new types are controlled from the

 

secondary IDE interface

Selecting either of the HDD’s will put you into a further sub-menu where their settings can be changed ;

Performance

Select either Compatible or High

 

performance

 

The default setting is High performance.

Transmission mode

Select either Extended or Standard

 

The default setting is Extended

Selecting either of the CDROM’s will put you into their sub-menu where the changeable setting for these drives is for ;

Performance

select either Compatible and High

 

performance

 

The default setting is Compatible.

Date and Time

This is to enable a change to the Real Time Clock (RTC) on the system motherboard. This RTC is normally maintained by the motherboard battery when the system is switched off.

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