Disk Drive Control; Drive Control Settings - Acer Altos 500 Series User Manual

2.10.3 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).
Table 2-2 lists the drive control settings and their corresponding functions.
Table 2-2

Drive Control Settings

Floppy Drive
Setting
Normal
Write Protect All Sectors
Write Protect Boot Sector
Hard Disk Drive
Setting
Normal
Write Protect All Sectors
Write Protect Boot Sector
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Description
Floppy drive functions normally
Disables the write function on all sectors
Disables the write function only on the
boot sector
Description
Hard disk drive functions normally
Disables the write function on all sectors
Disables the write function only on the
boot sector