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BIOS Setup
- Primary IDE Master -
Type
This item allows you to select the hard disk type. Available setting
options are:[Not Installed], [Auto], [CD/DVD] or [ARMD].
LBA/Large M ode
This item allows you to enable or disable the LBA (Logical Block Address,
the logical block size in hard disk) mode.
Block (M ulti-Sector Transfer)
If your IDE hard drive supports block mode (most new drives do),select
[Enabled] for automatic detection of the optimal number of block read/
writes per sector the drive can support.
PIO M ode
This field lets you set a PIO (Programmed Input/Output) mode for the IDE
devices that the onboard IDE interface supports. Modes 0 through 4
provide successively increased performance. In [Auto] mode, the sys-
tem automatically determines the best mode for each device.
DM A M ode
This item allows you to enable or disable the DMA (Direct Memory
Access) mode.
S.M.A.R.T
This allows you to activate the S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis &
Report-ing Technology) capability for the hard disks. S.M.A.R.T is a
utility that monitorsyour disk status to predict hard disk failure. This
gives you an opportunity tomove data from a hard disk that is going to
fail to a safe place before the harddisk becomes offline.
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