Disk Drive Control - Acer 500 System Manual

Enter your new Power-on Password twice.
Password may be up to 7 characters long.
Enter Password ..................[
Enter Password again ............[
Set or Change Password
Operation Mode
This function lets you enable or disable the password prompt display.
When set to Normal , the password prompt appears before system
boot. When set to Keyboard Lock
appear; however, your system will not respond to any keyboard or
mouse input until you enter the correct password.

Disk Drive Control

The disk drive control features allow you to control the floppy drive or
the hard disk drive boot function to prevent loading operating systems
or other programs from a certain drive while the other drives are
operational (under DOS mode only).
Floppy Drive
Setting
Normal
Write Protect All Sectors
Write Protect Boot Sector
Hard Disk Drive
Setting
3-38
Power-on Password
, the password prompt does not
Description
Floppy drive functions normally
Disables the write function on all
sectors
Disables the write function only
on the boot sector
Description
Altos 500 System Guide
Power-on
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