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Definition: PIO mode
(
P
rogrammed
I
nput/
O
utput mode) The data transfer mode used by earlier IDE drives. The PIO mode used the CPU's registers for data transfer in contrast with DMA, which transfers directly between main memory and the peripheral device. See
IDE
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