Mitsubishi Electric Apricot LS 550 Owner's Handbook Manual page 89

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Any parallel port devices that you may wish to attach, such as a tape
streamer or external hard drive etc., should have full instructions
supplied with them that will tell you if the port capabilities need to
be altered to one of the extended options above.
Mouse
This option enables the use of a mouse. The actual presence of the
mouse can then be detected by POST. You should not normally
disable this setting.
Diskette Controller
This option enables the use of the 3.5" floppy diskette drive. You
should not normally disable this setting.
Diskette drive A/B
This lets you specify what diskette and floppy disk drives are fitted.
Diskette drive A is fitted by default, and is invariably a 1.44 Mbytes
3.5" drive. You will not be required to change this setting.
Video Setup
This details the video controller and details the size of the video
memory.
IDE Controller
This option enables the use of the hard drives connected to the
onboard controller.
IDE Drives Setup
The motherboard's two IDE/ATA (Integrated Drive electronics
AT-Attachment) interface support a total of four drives (that is, two
drives per interface).
However, the computer itself can accommodate at most two hard
disk drives plus one removable-media drive, typically a CD-ROM
drive. The hard disk drives should be connected to the primary IDE
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