DigiPoS PowerPoS Technical Manual
IDE Options Sub Menus
The
Master
and
Slave
sub-menus accessed from the Main Menu control these types of
devices:
o
Hard disk drives
o
Removable-disk drives such as Zip drives
o
CD-ROM
drives
The DigiPoS BIOS supports up to two
IDE disk adapters
, called
primary
and
secondary
adapters. Each adapter supports one
master drive
and one optional
slave drive
in these
possible combinations:
o
1 Master (3.5” HDD without CD ROM)
o
1 Master, 1 Slave (3.5” HDD and CD ROM)
o
2 Masters (2 x 2.5” HDD)
o
2 Masters, 1 Slave (2 x 2.5” HDD and CD ROM)
If you need to change your drive settings, selecting one of the Master or Slave drives on
the Main Menu displays a sub-menu like this:
Phoenix – AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility
IDE Primary Master
Item Help
IDE HDD Auto-Detection
[Press Enter]
IDE Primary Master
[Auto]
Access Mode
[Auto]
Capacity 20021 MB
Cylinder 38792
Head 16
Precomp 0
Landing Zone 38791
Sector 63
Menu Level
ff
To auto-detect the
HDD’s size, head…. On
this channel
ÇÈÆÅ
: Move Enter:Select +/-/PU/PD:Value F10:Save ESC:Exit F1:General Help
F5 : Previous Values F6: Fail-Safe Defaults F7 : Optimised Defaults
Details
Feature Options
Description
IDE Primary Master/
Slave/ Secondary
Master/ Slave
None
Auto
Manual
None
= Either NO drive is installed or you can
disable any drive that may be installed.
Manual
= Non-Functional in this BIOS.
Auto
= Auto detect. The drive itself supplies the
correct information (Default)
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