DEC DECpc LPx Service Maintenance Manual page 22

Utilities & Configuration
BIOS Setup Utility Options
Menu Field Settings
Enabled at:
Serial port 2
2F8h-2FFh
(IRQ3)
3E8h-3EFh
(IRQ4)
2E8h-2EFh
(IRQ3)
Disabled
3F8h-3FFh
(IRQ4)
Enabled
Diskette drive
Disabled
Exchange Disabled
Enabled
diskette drives
Disabled
Diskette write
(1) Enabled
protection
Enabled
IDE hard disk
Disabled
drives
Types 2 and 3
HDD user
Types 48 and
definable
types 49
Large drive Standard
(1)
addressing
LBA convert
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Comments
Enables or disables any desired onboard serial port at the specified
address.
Enables or disables the onboard diskette drive controller.
Allows to logically exchange physical diskette drive designations.
Enables or disables the selected diskette drive's write protect option.
Note: This option allows to write protect any installed diskette drive.
Enabling this option prevents unauthorized personnel from writing
data to a diskette.
Enables or disables the onboard IDE disk drive controller.
Disable this option when having a SCSI controller installed in one of
the expansion slots.
The BIOS Setup utility allows types 2 and 3 or types 48 and 49 to be
user definable.
Drive type 48 or 49 information is aliased to drive type 2 or 3 when
application software does not recognize drive types above 47.
Auto-detection of IDE drive parameter is supported in types 2 and 3
and types 48 and 49.
Some operating systems do not recognize hard disk drive types above
29. Auto-detection of IDE drive parameter is supported in types 2 and
3 and types 48 and 49.
The drives cylinder/ head/ sector values are used by the computers
BIOS and operating system (hard disk drives up to 528 MB).
Allows the computers BIOS to convert the logical cylinder/ head/
sector used by the operating system to the drives cylinder/ head/
sector value (hard disk drives greater than 528 MB).
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