Technical data

BIOS Setup Utility
2-5
DIGITAL PC 3500/5510
Menu Fields Settings Comments
IDE Adapter Primary/Secondary Master/Slave (continued)
Cylinders
(1)
0 to 14848
Displays the number of cylinders.
Heads
(1)
1 to 64
Displays the number of heads.
Sectors/track
(1)
0 to 63
Displays the number of sectors/track.
Maximum Capacity Displays the maximum capacity of the drive.
Multi-sector
transfers
(1)
Disabled
2 sectors
4 sectors
8 sectors
16 sectors
Max
Determines the number of sectors per block for
multiple sector transfers.
Max
refers to the size the disk returns when queried.
LBA mode control
Disabled
Enabled
Enabling this option causes Logical Block Addressing
(LBA) instead of cylinders and heads. Select
Disabled
for IDE hard disk drives that are up to 528
MB in size. When using an IDE drive larger than 528
MB and an operating system that supports LBA, select
Enable
. MS-DOS and Windows are examples of
operating systems that support LBA.
32-bit I/O
Enabled
Disabled
Enables or disables the 32-bit, hard disk drive data
transfer option. Enabling this option speeds up data
transfers; ensure that the HDD supports 32-bit I/O
transfers.
Transfer mode
(1)
Standard
Fast PIO1
Fast PIO2
Fast PIO3
Fast PI04
Selects the method to transfer data to and from the
HDD. If you selected
autotype
for the HDD, Setup
automatically selects the optimum transfer mode.
Ultra DMA transfer
mode
Disabled
Mode 0
Mode 1
Mode 2
Selects the Ultra DMA method to transfer data to and
from the HDD.
(1)
These fields are automatically filled in if the computer auto-detected an installed hard disk drive.
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