<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//Norman Walsh//DTD DocBook HTML 1.0//EN">
<HTML
><HEAD
><TITLE
>IDE Tool</TITLE
><META
NAME="GENERATOR"
CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet"><LINK
REL="NEXT"
TITLE="Viewing IDE Device Information"
HREF="viewing.html"></HEAD
><BODY
BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"
TEXT="#000000"
LINK="#0000FF"
VLINK="#840084"
ALINK="#0000FF"
><DIV
CLASS="ARTICLE"
><DIV
CLASS="TITLEPAGE"
><H1
CLASS="TITLE"
>IDE Tool</H1
><P
>Copyright © 2000 by <SPAN
CLASS="HOLDER"
>Dan Mueth</SPAN
></P
><DIV
CLASS="LEGALNOTICE"
><P
></P
>   <P
>    Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
    document under the terms of the <I
CLASS="CITETITLE"
>GNU Free Documentation
    License</I
>, Version 1.1 or any later version published
    by the Free Software Foundation with no Invariant Sections, no
    Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. You may obtain a copy
    of the <I
CLASS="CITETITLE"
>GNU Free Documentation License</I
> from
    the Free Software Foundation by visiting <A
HREF="http://www.fsf.org"
TARGET="_top"
>their Web site</A
> or by writing to:
    Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
    Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
   </P
>
   <P
>    Many of the names used by companies to distinguish their products and
    services are claimed as trademarks. Where those names appear in any
    GNOME documentation, and those trademarks are made aware to the members
    of the GNOME Documentation Project, the names have been printed in caps
    or initial caps.
   </P
>
  <P
></P
></DIV
><HR
WIDTH="75%"
ALIGN="CENTER"
COLOR="#000000"
SIZE="1"></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="TOC"
><DL
><DT
><B
>Table of Contents</B
></DT
><DT
><A
HREF="index.html#intro"
>Introduction</A
></DT
><DT
><A
HREF="viewing.html"
>Viewing IDE Device Information</A
></DT
><DT
><A
HREF="configuring.html"
>Configuring IDE Devices</A
></DT
><DT
><A
HREF="bugs.html"
>Known Bugs and Limitations</A
></DT
><DT
><A
HREF="authors.html"
>Authors</A
></DT
><DT
><A
HREF="license.html"
>License</A
></DT
></DL
></DIV
> 

   
  

  

  

  <DIV
CLASS="LEGALNOTICE"
><P
></P
>   <P
>    Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
    document under the terms of the <I
CLASS="CITETITLE"
>GNU Free Documentation
    License</I
>, Version 1.1 or any later version published
    by the Free Software Foundation with no Invariant Sections, no
    Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. You may obtain a copy
    of the <I
CLASS="CITETITLE"
>GNU Free Documentation License</I
> from
    the Free Software Foundation by visiting <A
HREF="http://www.fsf.org"
TARGET="_top"
>their Web site</A
> or by writing to:
    Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
    Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
   </P
>
   <P
>    Many of the names used by companies to distinguish their products and
    services are claimed as trademarks. Where those names appear in any
    GNOME documentation, and those trademarks are made aware to the members
    of the GNOME Documentation Project, the names have been printed in caps
    or initial caps.
   </P
>
  <P
></P
></DIV
>

   

 

 

 
 <DIV
CLASS="SECT1"
><H1
CLASS="SECT1"
><A
NAME="intro"
>Introduction</A
></H1
>  

  <P
>   <TT
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>IDE Tool</TT
> is a tool for viewing and
   tuning the properties and settings of IDE drives, such as IDE hard
   drives and CDROMs.  The hard drive properties which
   <TT
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>IDE Tool</TT
> shows include the model,
   geometry, and cache.  It allows you to control drive configuration
   such as whether it uses DMA and IRQ unmask.
  </P
>



  <P
>   <TT
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>IDE Tool</TT
> is included in the
   <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>gnome-utils</TT
> package, which is part of the
   GNOME desktop environment. This document describes version
   1.0.51 of <TT
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>IDE Tool</TT
>.
  </P
>

 </DIV
>


 
 

 


 
 


 
 
 



 


 

 </DIV
><DIV
CLASS="NAVFOOTER"
><HR
ALIGN="LEFT"
WIDTH="100%"><TABLE
WIDTH="100%"
BORDER="0"
CELLPADDING="0"
CELLSPACING="0"
><TR
><TD
WIDTH="33%"
ALIGN="left"
VALIGN="top"
>&nbsp;</TD
><TD
WIDTH="34%"
ALIGN="center"
VALIGN="top"
>&nbsp;</TD
><TD
WIDTH="33%"
ALIGN="right"
VALIGN="top"
><A
HREF="viewing.html"
>Next</A
></TD
></TR
><TR
><TD
WIDTH="33%"
ALIGN="left"
VALIGN="top"
>&nbsp;</TD
><TD
WIDTH="34%"
ALIGN="center"
VALIGN="top"
>&nbsp;</TD
><TD
WIDTH="33%"
ALIGN="right"
VALIGN="top"
>Viewing IDE Device Information</TD
></TR
></TABLE
></DIV
></BODY
></HTML
>