Kennmex POS 608 User Manual page 26

Floppy A, B
Move the cursor to these fields and select the floppy type.
Primary/Secondary Master/Slave LBA Mode
LBA (Logical Block Addressing) is a new IDE HDD access method to developed to overcome the
528-megabyte capacity bottleneck. If your IDE hard disk capacity is greater than 528MB,
AMIBIOS can enable this LBA mode feature. The option is only for Primary Master IDE LBA mode.
Primary/Secondary Master/Slave Block Mode
If your hard disk drive supports IDE block transfer mode, enable this option for a faster IDE hard
disk drive transfer rate. The option is only for Primary Master Block mode.
Primary/Secondary Master/Slave PIO Mode
This option enables Primary Master IDE PIO mode on the IDE, which can set proper cycle timings.
The cycle timing between the IDE PIO mode value and IDE cycle timing is shown below:
Mode 0 -> Timing (600ns)
Mode 2 -> Timing (240ns)
Mode 4 -> Timing (120ns)
Primary/Secondary Master/Slave 32Bit Mode
This option enables Primary Master IDE 32-bit data transfers on the IDE data port. If disabled,
16-bit data transfer is used by the BIOS.32-bit data transfers can only be enabled if IDE prefetch
mode is also enabled.
Boot Sector Virus Protection
When this option is enabled, AMIBIOS issues a warning when any program or virus issues a Disk
Format command or attempts to write to the boot sector of the hard disk drive. The settings are
Disabled, Enabled.
Base/Extd Memory
Displays the amount of conventional/extended memory detected during boot up.
Mode 1 -> Timing (383ns)
Mode 3 -> Timing (180ns)
Mode 5 -> Timing (60ns)
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