Acnodes PC 5173 - Manual (Page 59)

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PC 5173
17” Industrial wireless Panel PC
Use the LBA/Large Mode option to disable or enable BIOS to auto detects LBA (Logical
Block Addressing). LBA is a method of addressing data on a disk drive. In LBA mode, the maximum
drive capacity is 137 GB.
Disabled BIOS is prevented from using the LBA mode control on the specified channel.
Auto DEFAULT BIOS auto detects the LBA mode control on the specified channel.
Block (Multi Sector Transfer) [Auto]
Use the Block (Multi Sector Transfer) to disable or enable BIOS to auto detect if the device supports
multi-sector transfers.
Disabled
BIOS is prevented from using Multi-Sector Transfer on the specified channel. The data to and from the
device occurs one sector at a time.
Auto DEFAULT
BIOS auto detects Multi-Sector Transfer support on the drive on the specified channel. If supported
the data transfer to and from the device occurs multiple sectors at a time.
PIO Mode [Auto]
Use the PIO Mode option to select the IDE PIO (Programmable I/O) mode program timing cycles
between the IDE drive and the programmable IDE controller. As the PIO mode increases, the cycle time
decreases.
Auto
DEFAULT
BIOS auto detects the PIO mode. Use this value if the IDE disk
drive support cannot be determined.
0
PIO mode 0 selected with a maximum transfer rate of 3.3MBps
1
PIO mode 1 selected with a maximum transfer rate of 5.2MBps
2
PIO mode 2 selected with a maximum transfer rate of 8.3MBps
3
PIO mode 3 selected with a maximum transfer rate of 11.1MBps
4
PIO mode 4 selected with a maximum transfer rate of 16.6MBps (This setting generally works with
all hard disk drives manufactured after 1999. For other disk drives, such as IDE CD-ROM drives,
check the specifications of the drive.)