# IDE Tool Manual

Copyright © 2000 by Dan Mueth

# Introduction

`IDE Tool` 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 `IDE Tool` shows include the model, geometry, and cache. It allows you to control drive configuration such as whether it uses DMA and IRQ unmask.

`IDE Tool` is included in the `gnome-utils` package, which is part of the GNOME desktop environment. This document describes version 1.2 of `IDE Tool`.

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