Features

Some of the features included in XTIDE Universal BIOS are...

• Supports up to 4 IDE controllers
• Support for virtual drives via serial port (see Serial Drives)
• Supports drives with any capacity (MS-DOS 7.x (Windows 9x) or FreeDOS is required to access more than 8.4 GB)
• PIO transfers with block mode support
• Hard disk autodetection
• Autodetected capacity, both CHS and LBA, can be overridden to make drive appear smaller than it actually is
• Hotkeys and optional Boot menu (included in the large official builds) for selecting any floppy drive or hard drive to boot from, including drives that are not handled by XTIDE Universal BIOS
• Compact Flash and Microdrive support
• Support for most 8-, 16-, and 32-bit IDE controllers
• Native support for QDI Vision QD6500 and QD6580 VLB IDE controllers

...and many more.