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mode.
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Primary/Secondary Master/Slave Block Mode
If your hard disk drive supports IDE block transfer mode, enable this option for a faster IDE
hard disk drive transfer rate. The option is only for Primary Master Block mode.
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Primary/Secondary Master/Slave PIO Mode
This option enables Primary Master IDE PIO mode on the IDE, which can set proper cycle
timings. The cycle timing between the IDE PIO mode value and IDE cycle timing is shown
below:
Mode 0 -> Timing (600ns) Mode 1 -> Timing (383ns)
Mode 2 -> Timing (240ns) Mode 3 -> Timing (180ns)
Mode 4 -> Timing (120ns) Mode 5 -> Timing (60ns)
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Primary/Secondary Master/Slave 32Bit Mode
This option enables Primary Master IDE 32-bit data transfers on the IDE data port. If disabled,
16-bit data transfer is used by the BIOS.32-bit data transfers can only be enabled if IDE
prefetch mode is also enabled.
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Boot Sector Virus Protection
When this option is enabled, AMIBIOS issues a warning when any program or virus issues a
Disk Format command or attempts to write to the boot sector of the hard disk drive. The
settings are Disabled, Enabled.
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