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Chapter 4
BIOS Configuration
Pri/Sec Master/Slave ARMD Emulated as
ATAPI Removable Media Disks (e.g. ZIP drives) are hybrid drives.
They are removable, and can be used as floppy drives, but also have
great capacity and so are sometimes used as hard drives. These four
options ensure that, if you have an ARMD attached as a master or
slave device, it can be properly detected by the system. The settings
are Auto, Floppy, and Hard Disk.
1st Boot Device
This option sets the type of device for the first boot drive that the
AMIBIOS attempts to boot from after AMIBIOS POST completes.
The settings are Disabled, 1st IDE-HDD, 2nd IDE-HDD, 3rd IDE-
HDD, 4th IDE-HDD, Floppy, ARMD-FDD, ARMD-HDD, ATAPI
CDROM, SCSI, NETWORK, and I
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2nd Boot Device
This option sets the type of device for the second boot drive that the
AMIBIOS attempts to boot from after AMIBIOS POST completes.
The settings are Disabled, 1st IDE-HDD, 2nd IDE-HDD, 3rd IDE-
HDD, 4th IDE-HDD, Floppy, ARMD-FDD, ARMD-HDD, ATAPI
CDROM, and SCSI.
3rd Boot Device
This option sets the type of device for the third boot drive that the
AMIBIOS attempts to boot from after AMIBIOS POST completes.
The settings are Disabled, 1st IDE-HDD, 2nd IDE-HDD, 3rd IDE-
HDD, 4th IDE-HDD, Floppy, ARMD-FDD, ARMD-HDD, ATAPI
CDROM.
Try Other Boot Devices
Set this option to Yes to instruct AMIBIOS to attempt to boot from any
other drive in the system if it cannot find a boot drive among the drives
specified in the 1st Boot Device, 2nd Boot Device, and 3rd Boot
Device options. The settings are Yes or No.
Floppy Access Control
This option specifies the read-write access that is set when booting