Floppy Options; Primary Ide - NEC POWERMATE ENTERPRISE NETPC Service Manual

2-14 Technical Information

Floppy Options

The parameters for this field (Diskette A:, Diskette B:, and Floppy Write Protect) are set to
"Disabled" because the PowerMate NetPC contains no diskette drive.

Primary IDE

The Primary IDE Master and Slave settings control the system's hard disk drive.
The computer comes with the hard disk drive (drive C:) configured as the "Primary IDE
Master." The system can support a maximum of two IDE drives (master and slave) on the
primary IDE channel. Menu choices include:
T
Primary Master
T
Primary Slave.
The default setting for existing installed Master devices is "Auto," meaning that the system
automatically detects the hard disk type and sets the remaining parameters. The default
setting for existing installed Slave devices is "None."
If a hard disk drive that does not feature auto IDE type detection has been installed (or the
IDE hard disk was formatted on another system with parameters different than those
reported by the drive), enter a parameter for each of the following fields.
NOTE: These parameter also appear in
Configuration mode as part of the BIOS
recovery procedure described in Appendix B. Do
not change the floppy option settings unless you
are recovering the system BIOS in Configuration
mode
CAUTION: When set to Auto Detected, the
BIOS detects what the drive is capable of, not
the translation mechanism that was used to
format the drive.
If a drive is run in a mode other than the mode in
which it was partitioned and formatted,
unpredictable results may occur, including data
loss.