The move by PC manufacturers to minimize the use of the setup interface has caused Phoenix to change the way PhoenixBIOS 4.0 configures hard drives. In the past, a user would enter setup, select a menu for a specific drive, and then autotype the selected drive. Now systems are autotyping drives as a part of POST. This eliminates the need for a user to enter setup, and it also creates a new environment for autotyping drives. This paper describes a method for reliably autotyping drives as a part of the Power On Self Test (POST).
