Abit BE7-G, User Manual

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3-8 Chapter 3
Cylinder:
When disks are placed directly above one another along the shaft, the circular vertical “slice” consisting
of all the tracks located in a particular position is called a cylinder. You can set the number of cylinders
for a HDD. The minimum number you can enter is 0, the maximum number you can enter is 65536.
Head:
This is the tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to create and read back the magnetic patterns on
the disk (also called the read/write head). You can configure the number of read/write heads. The
minimum number you can enter is 0, the maximum number you can enter is 255.
Precomp:
The minimum number you can enter is 0, the maximum number you can enter is 65536.
WARNING:
Setting a value of 65536 means no hard disk exists.
Landing Zone:
This is a non-data area on the disk's inner cylinder where the heads can rest when the power is turned off.
The minimum number you can enter is 0, the maximum number you can enter is 65536.
Sector:
The minimum segment of track length that can be assigned to stored data. Sectors usually are grouped
into blocks or logical blocks that function as the smallest units of data permit. You can configure this item
to sectors per track. The minimum number you can enter is 0, the maximum number you can enter is 255.
Drive A & Drive B:
If you have installed the floppy disk drive here, then you can select the type of floppy drive it can support.
Six options are available: None
360K, 5.25in. 1.2M, 5.25in. 720K, 3.5in. 1.44M, 3.5in.
2.88M, 3.5in.
Floppy 3 Mode Support:
Four options are available: Disabled Driver A Driver B Both. The default setting is Disabled . 3
Mode floppy disk drives (FDD) are 3 1/2” drives used in Japanese computer systems. If you need to
access data stored in this kind of floppy, you must select this mode, and of course you must have a 3
Mode floppy drive.
Video:
You can select the VGA modes for your video adapter, four options are available: EGA/VGA CGA 40
CGA 80 MONO. The default setting is EGA/VGA .
Halt On:
You can select which type of error will cause the system to halt. Five options are available: All Errors
No Errors All, But Keyboard All, But Diskette All, But Disk/Key.
You can see your system memory list in the lower left box, it shows the Base Memory , Extended Memory
and total Memory size configurations in your system. It is detected by the system during boot-up
procedure.
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