VIA Technologies EPIA, User Manual

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Onboard IDE Channel 0 and 1
The integrated peripheral controller contains an IDE interface with support
for two IDE channels.
Setting Description
Enabled Activates each channel separately
Disabled Deactivates IDE channels
IDE Prefetch Mode
This allows the hard disk controller to use the fast block mode to transfer
data to and from the hard disk drive. Block mode is also called block
transfer, multiple commands or multiple sector read / write.
Setting Description
Enabled Block mode
Disabled Standard mode