Acer Altos 500 Altos 500 Service Guide - Page 67

LS-120 Drive Compatible As This parameter allows you not only to enable the LS-120 device installed in your system, but also to specify the function of the device. The setting affects how BIOS will detect the device. Possible settings are: • Normal In this setting, BIOS does not support the LS-120 drive. The drive needs the LS-120 device driver to operate. • Drive A BIOS recognizes the LS-120 drive as drive A. If a standard diskette drive A exists, BIOS automatically identifies it as drive B. If a standard diskette drive B exists, it automatically becomes inaccessible. If two LS-120 drives exist, BIOS recognizes them as drive A and drive B, respectively. • Drive B BIOS recognizes the LS-120 drive as drive B. If a standard diskette drive B exists, it becomes inaccessible. • Hard Disk BIOS recognizes the LS-120 drive as a hard disk. In this setting, format the LS-120 drive as any other hard disk and assign it a drive letter C, D, E, and so on. See the documentation that came with the LS-120 drive for more information. IDE Drives To configure the IDE drives connected to your system, select the parameter that represents the channel and port where the desired hard disk to configure is connected. The options are: IDE Primary Channel Master This parameter lets you configure the hard disk drive connected to the master port of IDE channel 1. BIOS Utility 3-11