TYAN Tomcat K8E-SLI S2866, User Manual

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3.9.1 IDE Function Setup
Phoenix-AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility
IDE Function Setup
Item Specific Help
OnChip IDE Channel 0
Primary Master PIO
Primary Slave PIO
Primary Master UDMA
Primary Slave UDMA
IDE DMA transfer access
Serial-ATA 1
Serial-ATA 2
IDE Prefetch Mode
[Enabled]
[Auto]
[Auto]
[Auto]
[Auto]
[Enabled]
[Enabled]
[Enabled]
[Enabled]
OnChip IDE Channel 0
This chipset contains a PCI IDE interface with support for the IDE channel.
Select Enabled to activate the primary and/or secondary onboard IDE
interface. Select Disabled to deactivate this interface, if you install a
primary and/or secondary add-in IDE interface.
Enabled / Disabled
Primary Master / Slave PIO
The four IDE PIO (Programmed Input / Output) fields let you set a PIO
mode (0-4) for each of the four IDE devices that the onboard IDE interface
s upports. Modes 0 through 4 provide successively increased performance.
In Auto mode, the system automatically determines the best mode for each
device.
Auto / Mode 0 ~ Mode 4
Primary Master / Slave UDMA
This option allows you to select the mode of operation for the Ultra DMA/33
implementation. This is possible only if your IDE hard drive supports UDMA
and the operating environment includes a DMA driver (Windows 95 OSR2
or a third party IDE bus master driver).
Auto / Disabled
IDE DMA transfer access
This feature is used to enable the function of IDE DMA transfer access.
Disabled /
Enabled