Question

The BIOS feature that enables a hard drive to read or write several sectors at a time is called what?

Answer 1

The BIOS feature that enables a hard drive to read or write several sectors at a time is called IDE block mode

Explanation:

IDE block mode setting speeds up IDE drivers when enabled by allowing multiple sectors to read or write operations. This BIOS feature rushes up hard disk drive passage by transferring many divisions of data per interrupt rather than using the normal single-sector transfer mode.

This mode of transfer is known as block transfers. When block transfers are enabled, depends on the IDE controller, nearly 64 KB of data can be transferred per interrupt.