Gateway P5 100XL IDE Drive Settings Using LBA

This article was previously published under Q131700

If two connectors of the IDE controller (configured for logical block addressing - LBA) on a Gateway 2000 P5 100XL computer are sharing Interrupt Request (IRQ) lines, I/O port addresses or Direct Memory Access (DMA) channels in Windows NT 3.5, ensure the following configurations are set in the Advanced CMOS of the computer:

   Drive Type: Auto-detection
   IDE Translation mode: LBA
   Multiple Sector mode: Disabled
   Fast Programmed I/O: Disabled
   PIO: Disabled
		

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