Technical Information
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Floppy disk drives
This is available purely to change the mode of the floppy drive. The
drive supplied and fitted is a 3.5inch 1.44 Mbyte. This setting, if
changed, could prevent software access to the fitted drive.
Hard disk drives
Hard disk type is auto detected on switch on, but various parameters
can be manually set for each drive, the system being capable of
controlling two HDD’s ;
HDD 0 The system hard drives are normally attached to
HDD 1 the primary PCI IDE interface. The system is
supplied with a master HDD (HDD 0)
CDROM 2 The CD-ROM drives are included in this section
CDROM 3 as most new types are controlled from the
secondary IDE interface
Selecting either of the HDD’s will put you into a further sub-menu
where their settings can be changed ;
Performance Select either Compatible or High
performance
The default setting is High performance.
Transmission mode Select either Extended or Standard
The default setting is Extended
Selecting either of the CDROM’s will put you into their sub-menu
where the changeable setting for these drives is for ;
Performance select either Compatible and High
performance
The default setting is Compatible.
Date and Time
This is to enable a change to the Real Time Clock (RTC) on the
system motherboard. This RTC is normally maintained by the
motherboard battery when the system is switched off.
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