Date
The date format is <day>, <month><date><year>.
day
The day, from Sun to Sat, determined
by the BIOS and is display-only
month
The month, Jan. through Dec.
date
The date, from 1 to 31
year
The year, from 1900 to 2099
Time
The time format is <hour><minute><second>. And the time is
calculated based on the 24-hour military-time clock. For example,
1p.m. is 13:00:00.
Drive A
Drive B
This category identifies the types of floppy disk drive A or drive B
that has been installed in the system.
Not installed
No floppy drive installed
360K, 5.25 in
5.25“ PC-type 360KB capacity
1.2M, 5.25 in
5.25“ AT-type 1.2MB capacity
720K, 3.5 in
3.5“ double-side 720KB capacity
1.44M, 3.5 in
3.5“ double-side 1.44MB capacity
2.88M, 3.5 in
3.5“ double-side 2.88MB capacity
Primary Master
Primary Slave
Secondary Master
Secondary Slave
These categories identify the types of 2 channels that have been
installed in the system. There are 46 predefined types and 4 user
definable types are for Enhanced IDE BIOS. Type 1 to 46 are
predefined. Type
‘user’
is user-definable. Press PgUp/PgDn to
select a numbered hard disk type. If you select
‘Auto’, the
BIOS
will auto-detect the HDD & CD-ROM Drive at the POST stage and
show the IDE for HDD & CD-ROM Drive. If you select
‘user’
, you
will need to know the information listed below. Enter the
information directly from the keyboard and press <Enter>. This
information should be from your hard disk vender or dealer. If the
controller of the HDD interface is ESDI, the selection shall be
‘
Type 1’
; if SCSI, the selection shall be
‘Not installed’
. If no
device is installed select
‘Not installed’
and press <Enter>.
Type
drive type
SIZE
automatically adjusts
CYLS
number of cylinders
HEAD
number of heads
WPcom
write precom
SEC
number of sectors
MODE
mode type
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