B&R Industries Automation PC 620, User Manual

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Software • Automation PC 620 with BIOS
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BIOS setting Description Setting options Effect
Type The type of drive connected to the primary
master is configured here. Auto Automatic recognition of the drive and setup of
appropriate values.
User Manual setup of the drive (number of cylinders,
heads, and sectors).
Other ATAPI Use this option for IDE disk drives that are not
mentioned here.
CD-ROM CD-ROM = CD-ROM drive
ATAPI removable The removable media drive is treated as a hard
drive or floppy drive.
IDE removable The IDE removable drive is treated as a hard
drive.
Multi-sector transfer This option determines the number of
sectors per block. Only possible when
manually setting up the drive. Disabled Disables this function.
2, 4, 8 or 16 sectors Number of sectors per block.
LBA mode control This option activates the logical block
addressing for IDE. This function enables
support of drives larger than 540 MB.
Only possible when manually setting up
the drive. Disabled Disables this function.
Enabled Enables this function.
32-bit I/O This function enables 32-bit data transfer. Disabled Disables this function.
Enabled Enables this function.
Transfer mode The communication path between the
primary master drive and the system
memory is defined here. Only possible
when manually setting up the drive. Default Default setting
Fast PIO 1 - Fast PIO 4 /
DMA2
Manual configuration of PIO mode.
Ultra DMA mode The data transfer rate to and from the
primary master drive is defined here. The
DMA mode must be activated in the
Windows device manager in order to
guarantee maximum performance. Only
possible when manually setting up the
drive. Disabled Disables this function. Do not use UDMA mode.
Mode 0 - Mode 5 Manual setting option for UDMA mode.
SMART monitoring Indicates whether the primary master
drive supports SMART technology. Disabled No drive support, and function is deactivated.
Enabled Drive support present, and function is activated.
Table 143: 815E - primary master setting options