IDE Buffer for DOS & Win
Se lect En abled to in crease through put to and from IDE de vices by us ing the on- chip read- ahead and
post- write IDE buff ers. Note that the use of the buffer may cause some slow IDE de vices to ap pear even
slower. The de fault is En abled.
IDE HDD Block Mode
Block mode is also called block trans fer, mul ti ple com mand, or mul ti ple sec tor read/write. If the
IDE hard drive sup ports block mode, se lect En abled for the auto mat ic de tec tion of the op ti mal number
of block read/writes per sec tor that the drive can sup port. The de fault is dis abled.
IDE Pri mary Mas ter PIO
There are 5 trans fer modes avail able for hard disk IDE trans fers rang ing from mode 0 to mode 4
with each suc ces sive mode pro vid ing an in creased level of per form ance. Se lect ing “Auto” will al low
the BIOS to auto mati cally se lect the op ti mum trans fer mode for the mas ter hard disk. The de fault set -
ting is Auto.
IDE Pri mary Slave PIO
Like the pre vious item, this op tion al lows for the se lec tion of any one of 5 IDE trans fer modes or an
Auto se lec tion which al lows the BIOS to auto- optimize the IDE trans fers to/from the slave hard disk.
The de fault set ting is Auto.
3.7
Load BIOS Defaults
This main- menu op tion will cause the CMOS RAM to be loaded with the de fault val ues as signed by
the fac tory. These are usu ally con sid ered safe val ues and do not neces sar ily rep re sent the high est per -
form ance val ues.
3.8
Load Setup Defaults
This op tion will cause the CMOS RAM to be loaded with de fault setup val ues as signed by the fac -
tory. These are usu ally val ues that were de ter mined to give a higher level of per form ance along with re -
li able op era tion.
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