
Digital VENTURIS Pentium PC
Utilities & Configuration
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Boot Options
(continued)
Menu Fields
Settings
Comments
Summary
screen
Enabled
Disabled
Enabling this option causes the computer to display configuration
parameters (in the form of a summary screen) during boot.
Fixed Disk Setup OptionsIDE Adapter 0/1 Master/Slave
Menu Fields
Settings
Comments
Autotype fixed
disk
Press [Enter] to detect and fill in the installed hard disk drive
parameters in the remaining fields.
Type
(1)
None to 39
User
Selecting None to 39 automatically fills in the remaining fields in this
menu. Selecting User prompts to fill in the remaining fields with the
installed hard disk drive’s parameters.
(2)
Cylinders
(1)
0 to 4095
Displays the number of cylinders.
Heads
(1)
1 to 64
Displays the number of heads.
Sectors/track
(1)
0 to 63
Displays the number of sectors/tracks.
Landing zone
0 to 4095
Displays the resting or park position of the heads when the HDD is
inactive.
Write
precomp
(1)
0 to 4095
None
Displays the number of cylinders that have their write timing changed.
Multi-sector
transfers
2 sectors
4 sectors
8 sectors
16 sectors
Auto
Disabled
Determines the number of sectors per block for multiple sector
transfers.
Auto refers to the size the disk returns when queried.
LBA control
mode
Disabled
Enabled
Enabling LBA causes logical block addressing to be used instead of
cylinders, heads and sectors.
This option allows to select Disabled for IDE hard disk drives up to
528 MB. When using IDE drives greater than 528 MB and MS-DOS
or MS-Windows as the operating system, select Enabled. Select
Disabled for all other operating systems.
32 bit I/O
Enabled
Disabled
Enables or disables 32-Bit data transfer with the IDE HDD. If
enabled, Read Ahead Mode is enabled and cannot be changed by the
user.
This is recommended when using the PCI IDE connector.
Transfer
mode
Standard
Fast PIO1
Fast PIO2
Fast PIO3
Selects the method to transfer data to and from the HDD. When
selecting the user autotype for the HDD, Setup automatically selects
the optimum transfer mode is selected.
Read ahead
mode
Enabled
Disabled
When enabled, the read ahead buffer in the local bus IDE controller
increases HDD performance. Enabled is selected automatically if 32-
Bit I/O is enabled.
(1)
These fields are automatically filled in if the computer auto-detected an installed hard disk drive.
(2)
Incorrect settings can cause the computer to malfunction.