NEC NEC Express5800 Series, Online Service Manual

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3-6 Configuring Your System
Primary/Secondary IDE Master and Slave Submenu
Feature Choices Description Your Setting
Type
Auto
None
CD-ROM
User
Auto allows the system to attempt auto-detection of
the drive type.
None informs the system to ignore this drive.
CD ROM allows the manual entry of some fields
described below.
User allows the manual entry of all fields described
below.
Cylinders 0 to 65535 Number of cylinders on drive. This field is
changeable only for Type User.
Heads 1 to 16 Number of read/write heads on drive. This field is
changeable only for Type User.
Sectors 0 to 63 Number of sectors per track. This field is
changeable only for Type User.
Maximum Capacity N/A Computed drive size. This field is informational
only for Type User.
Multi-Sector Transfer Disabled
2, 4, 8, or 16 sectors
Determines the number of sectors per block for
multi-sector transfers. This field is informational
only for Type Auto.
LBA Mode Control Disabled
Enabled
Enabling LBA causes logical block addressing to be
used in place of cylinders, heads, and sectors. This
field is informational only for Type Auto.
32 Bit I/O Disabled
Enabled
Enabling allows 32 bit IDE data transfers.
Transfer Mode Standard
Fast PIO 1
Fast PIO 2
Fast PIO 3
Fast PIO 4
FPIO 3/DMA 1
FPIO 4/DMA 2
Selects the method for moving data to and from the
drive. This field is informational only for Type
Auto.
Ultra DMA Mode Disabled
Mode 0
Mode 1
Mode 2
Selects the Ultra DMA Mode for moving data to
and from the drive.