The SECondary connection is only visible if the following mask in the
Setup is set to “Enable”.
The terms MASTR/SLAVE are the same as the setting on the IDE disks.
Take care that a bootable disk always must be configured as
MASTR and be plugged in the PRImary connector. A single
disk configured as SLAVE will not be recognized by the BIOS.
Besides this changing along with the Pentium CPU the item “AUTO” is
added for disk configuration. With this configuration the hard disk
parameters are read from the BIOS at every bootprocess and written into
the CMOS RAM. The message “FDISK n Identified” will appear on the
connected display. For that reason the Setup does not have to be called
up again when a hard disk has been changed.
The following description only refers to the automatic configuration of an
IDE disk during the Setup phase.
Secondary IDE
Enable
(8)Prev
(6)Incr
(2)Next
(4)Decr
Starting up the System
BIOS Setup
GB - 75