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4C24 CPU USER'S MANUAL
CPU OPERATION
HARD DRIVES
The 4C24 BIOS supports IDE type hard drives. You need to supply an external IDE controller
card (our 4I26 for example) to use the 4C24 with an IDE drive. The 4C24 BIOS reads the hard drive
parameters directly from the IDE drive. This means that no drive parameter information is stored on
the 4C24 card. This makes it much easier to install and change hard drives. It is especially convenient
when using ATA (PCMCIA format) removeable drives.
Hard drives are added to the 4C24 drive list after local flash drives. For example if you have a two
drive flash disk system, the flash drives would be assigned letters C: and D: and the hard drive would
become E:
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