Specifications

Chapter 4 BIOS Setup
62 Reference Manual ReadyBoard 800
♦ Boot 3rd – [none], [Drive A], [Drive B], [Drive C], [Drive D], [CDROM], [Alarm], or [Reboot]
♦ Boot 4th – [none], [Drive A], [Drive B], [Drive C], [Drive D], [CDROM], [Alarm], or [Reboot]
♦ Boot 5th – [none], [Drive A], [Drive B], [Drive C], [Drive D], [CDROM], [Alarm], or [Reboot]
♦ Boot 6th – [none], [Drive A], [Drive B], [Drive C], [Drive D], [CDROM], [Alarm], or [Reboot]
NOTE The default Boot order is, A, C, CD-ROM, and the BIOS will start
its search for a bootable device in drive A, then C, then CD-ROM.
If no bootable device is found, the screen will display “No Bootable
Device Available” and the boot process will stop, allowing you to
select from: R – for Reboot, or S – for Setup.
If you do not choose R or S, the boot process stops, until you
intervene, unless you have selected [Reboot] as an option.
• Drive and Boot Options
♦ Floppy over Parallel – [Disabled] or [Enabled]
* If [Enabled], this option selects the Floppy Drive instead of the Parallel port on the shared
connector.
* If [Disabled], this option selects the Parallel port instead of the Floppy Drive on the shared
connector.
♦ Floppy Seek – [Disabled] or [Enabled]
♦ Hard disk Seek – [Disabled] or [Enabled]
♦ Floppy Swap – [Disabled] or [Enabled]
♦ Boot Method – [Boot Sector] or [Windows CE]
Boot Sector is the traditional method for booting the system. If [Windows CE] is selected, the
BIOS attempts to load the NK.BIN file from the root directory of each boot device.
♦ Primary IDE Cable – [Auto], [40 Wire], or [80 Wire]
Setting these fields to [Auto], causes the BIOS to query the attached IDE device to determine
the type of IDE cable used. If the BIOS detects [40 wire], or you select it, the BIOS will not
use UDMA-66 or faster mode when sending signals to/from the IDE device.
♦ Secondary IDE Cable – [Auto], [40 Wire], or [80 Wire]
♦ Secondary Master ATA mode – [LBA], [Physical], or [Phoenix]
This default option (LBA - Logical Block Address) could be used on any IDE device,
including compact flash cards. However, this option specifically allows you to select between
the existing formats used to format your compact flash card as the Secondary Master device.
NOTE Always partition and format the compact flash on the ReadyBoard 800. The
options listed here allow use any one of the three common geometries
available for compact flash cards when configuring the file system for the
ReadyBoard 800. The LBA (Logical Block Address) is set as the default
method because it can handle larger drives and is the newest method
available. The other common methods that may be encountered are
Physical (below 512 MB) or Phoenix (physical above 512 MB).
♦ Secondary Slave ATA mode – [LBA], [Physical], or [Phoenix]
This default option (LBA - Logical Block Address) could be used on any IDE device,
including compact flash cards. However, this option specifically allows you to select between
the existing formats used to format your compact flash card as the Secondary Slave device.