Acer Aspire 7100 Aspire 7100 Service Guide - Page 28

LS-120 drive 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: u Normal In this setting, BIOS does not support the LS-120 drive. The drive needs the LS-120 device driver to operate. u 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 two LS-120 drives exist, BIOS recognizes them as drive A and drive B, respectively. u Drive B BIOS recognizes the LS-120 drive as drive B. u 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. 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 be configured is connected. The options are: IDE Primary Channel Master This parameter allows you to configure the hard disk drive connected to the master port of IDE channel 1. IDE Primary Channel Slave This parameter allows you to configure the hard disk drive connected to the slave port of IDE channel 1. IDE Secondary Channel Master This parameter allows you to configure the hard disk drive connected to the master port of IDE channel 2. IDE Secondary Channel Slave This parameter allows you to configure the hard disk drive connected to the slave port of IDE channel 2. Chapter 2 21