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4. BIOS SETUP
4. BIOS SETUP
Master/Slave Drives
Manually enter the number of cylinders, heads and sectors per track for the drive.
Refer to the drive documentation or on the drive label for this information.
NOTE: After entering the IDE hard disk drive information into BIOS, use a disk
utility, such as FDISK, to partition and format new IDE hard disk drives. This is
necessary so that you can write or read data from the hard disk. Make sure to set the
partition of the Primary IDE hard disk drives to active.
If no drive is installed or if you are removing a drive and not replacing it, select
[None].
Translation Method [LBA]
Select the hard disk drive type in this field. When Logical Block Addressing (LBA)
is enabled, 28-bit addressing of the hard drive disregarding cylinders, heads, or
sectors. Note that LBA Mode is necessary for drives with more than 504MB storage
capacity. Configuration options: [LBA] [LARGE] [Normal] [Match Partition Table]
[Manual]
Cylinders
This field configures the number of cylinders. Refer to the drive documentation to
determine the correct value to enter into this field. NOTE: To make changes to
this field, set the Type field to [User Type HDD] and the Translation Method
field to [Manual].
[User Type HDD]