Aaeon SBC-558P, Manual

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Chapter 3 Award BIOS Setup 37
selecting the drive type are available:
1.Match the specifications of your installed IDE hard drive(s) with
the preprogrammed values for drive types 1 through 45.
2.Select USER and enter values into each drive parameter field.
3.Use the IDE HDD AUTO DECTECTION function in Setup.
Here is a brief explanation of drive specifications:
• Type: The BIOS contains a table of pre-defined drive types. Each
defined drive type has a specified number of cylinders,
number of heads, write precompensation factor, landing
zone, and number of sectors. Drives whose specifications
do not accommodate any pre-defined type are classified as
type USER.
•Size : Disk drive capacity (approximate). Note that this size is
usually slightly greater than the size of a formatted disk
given by a disk-checking program.
• Cyls : Number of cylinders
• Head : Number of heads
• Precomp : Write precompensation cylinder
• Landz : Landing zone
• Sector : Number of sectors
• Mode : Auto, Normal, Large, or LBA
- Auto : The BIOS automatically determines the optimal mode.
- Normal : Maximum number of cylinders, heads, and sectors
supported are 1024, 16, and 63.
- Large : For drives that do not support LBA and have more than
1024 cylinders.