HARD DISK UTILITY
Use this option to do low-level hard disk format, Auto-Interleave and
Media-Analysis of your MFM harddisk drive. IDE, ESDI, and SCSI drives
don't need this utility and you should not use it on them.
Low-level
harddisk format
should be done for new harddisks and
should be done yearly for used harddisks. This format function allows
you to format the entire disk or a part of the disk.
Warning! All data
on the harddisk may be lost after a low-level format
.
With
Auto-Interleave
you need not speculate about the value of the
interleave factor while entering the parameters for format. This function
determines the optimum interleave factor for the best disk performance.
Media Analysis
does a comprehensive analysis of the harddisk
surface to find out bad patches on your harddisk. This leaves the surface
of the harddisk formatted with bad tracks marked bad.
WRITE TO CMOS AND EXIT
After you have made any changes during setup, use this option to store
those new information into non-volatile CMOS memory. The system
should reboot with the correct system board configuration.
DO NOT WRITE TO CMOS AND EXIT
After you have/have not made any changes during setup and decided not
to store those information into non-volatile CMOS memory, use this
option to exit Setup. The system should reboot with the current
configuration stored in CMOS memory.
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