Chapter 5. BIOS Utilities
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Features of BIOS Setup Utility
This section gives a short introduction to the most of the features of BIOS
Setup Utility. But you can also find helpful information in the “Item Specific
Help” each time when you select and highlight an item in the BIOS Setup
Utility.
System Time/Date
Sets the current time (Hour:Minute:Second) and date (Month/Day/Year).
Legacy Diskette A
Selects the type of the installed floppy disk drive or disables the device.
Primary Master
Displays the size of the primary hard disk and configures its parameters such
as Type, Cylinders, Heads, Sectors and so on. The default setting of Type is
set to “Auto”, which allows the BIOS Setup Utility to set optimum parameters
for the hard disk drive. If you have enough knowledge for the hard disk and want
to configure it by yourself, you can set Type to “User”, which allows you to set
the number for Cylinders, Heads, Sectors etc. The following explains some of
the parameters:
Multi-Sector Transfers
Sets how may sectors per block the disk trans-
fers.
LBA Mode Control
Enables or disables the LBA mode. Enables
this feature if your hard disk is bigger than
528MB in capacity.
32 Bit I/O
Enables or disables 32-bit communications be-
tween the CPU and the IDE controller.
Transfer Mode
Sets the method for data communications be-
tween the system and the IDE controller.
