NEC MH4500 Primary IDE Master and Slave Submenu, Main Menu, Configuring Your System, Feature

Main Menu

Feature	Choices	Description	Your Setting
		described.
Language	English (US)	Selects which language BIOS
	Spanish, Italian	displays in.
	French, German,
	Japanese (Kanji)

Primary IDE Master and Slave Submenu

The following table shows the settings for the Primary IDE Master and Slave submenu.

Primary IDE Master and Slave Submenu

Feature	Choices	Description	Your Setting
Type	Auto	Auto allows the system to attempt
	None	auto-detection of the drive type.
		None informs the system to ignore
		this drive.
	CD-ROM	Allows the manual entry of some
	IDE Removable	fields described below.
	ATAPI Removable
	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.
Heads	1 to 64	Number of read/write heads on
		drive. This field is changeable only
		for Type User.
Sectors	1 to 64	Number of sectors per track. This
		field is changeable only for Type
		User.
Maximum Capacity	N/A	Computed drive size. This field is
		informational only for Type User.
Multi-Sector Transfer	Disabled	Determines the number of sectors
	2, 4, 8, or 16 sectors	per block for multi-sector transfers.
		This field is informational only for
		Type Auto.
LBA Mode Control	Disabled	Enabling LBA causes logical block
	Enabled	addressing to be used in place of
		cylinders, heads, and sectors. This
		field is informational only for Type
		Auto.
32 Bit I/O	Disabled	Enabling allows 32 bit IDE data
	Enabled	transfers.
Transfer Mode	Standard	Selects the method for moving data
	Fast PIO 1	to and from the drive. This field is
	Fast PIO 2	informational only for Type Auto.
	Fast PIO 3
	Fast PIO 4

Configuring Your System 3-5