System BIOS and Utilities 4-7
If you add an optional 5.25-inch diskette drive to your
system, select Floppy B and change the parameter to
1.2 MB, 5.25 inch.
Floppy Write Protect
This option enables or disables write protection for the
diskette drive(s). Choose the desired setting to enable or
disable (default) this option.
To return to the Main Menu, press the
Esc
key.
IDE Devices
The next four entries, Primary IDE Master and Slave
and Secondary IDE Master and Slave, refer to settings
for IDE devices. These fields report the presence of, and
identification for as many as four physical IDE devices,
two on each PCI/IDE connector.
The submenus can be used to auto-configure or
manually configure the IDE devices, usually hard drives
or CD-ROM drives. Depending on the system you
purchased, the available options may include “User,”
“Auto” (default), “CD-ROM,” “IDE Removable,”
“ATAPI Removable” or “None.”
The standard hard drive (drive C) shipped with the
system is configured as “Primary IDE Master.” The
standard CD-ROM reader is configured as “Secondary
IDE Master.” When the cursor is placed on one of these
fields and selected by pressing the
Enter
key, the IDE
Device submenu appears showing the drive parameters
you can set.
