4.9Peripheral Setup

The IDE hard drive controllers can support up to two separate hard drives. These drives have a master/slave relationship that is determined by the cabling configuration used to attach them to the controller. Your system supports two IDE controllers--a primary and a secondary--so you can install up to four separate hard disks.

PIO means Programmed Input/Output. Rather than having the BIOS issue a series of commands to affect the transfer to or from the disk drive, PIO allows the BIOS to tell the controller what it wants and then let the controller and the CPU perform the complete task by them. This is much simpler and more efficient (also faster).

AMIBIOS SETUP – PERIPHERAL SETUP

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OnBoard FDC

Enabled

Available Options:

OnBoard Serial Port A

3F8/COM1

` Disabled

 

OnBoard Serial Port B

2F8/COM2

Enabled

 

Serial Port B Mode

Normal

 

 

IR Duplex Mode

Half Duplex

 

 

IR Pin Select

IRRX/IRTX

 

 

OnBoard Parallel Port

378

 

 

Parallel Port Mode

Normal

 

 

EPP Version

N/A

 

 

Parallel Port IRQ

7

 

 

Parallel Port DMA Channel

N/A

 

 

Keyboard Power On Function

Disabled

 

 

Specific Key for Power On

N/A

 

 

Mouse Power On Function

Disabled

 

 

On-Chip IDE

Both

ESC:Exit

:Sel

OnBoard Lan

Enabled

PgUp/PgDn: Modify

 

 

F1:Help

F2/F3:Color

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