6. BIOS Configuration
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6.1.2 IDE HDD Disks
Selecting
“IDE Primary Master”
on the Standard CMOS Features screen display
this menu:
Press <Enter> key to automatically detect an IDE hard disk drive. If automatic
detection is successful, the correct values will be filled in the remaining fields on
this screen. Displayed up are explanation of the Maxtor Diamond 5.7GB HDD.
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If automatic detection fails, your hard disk drive may be to older too, now. You
can try updating your BIOS or enter the correct parameters manually. Press
the <PgUp> or <PgDn> key to [Manual] mode on the IDE Primary Master screen.
Manually enter Access Mode, number of Cylinder, Head, Precomp, Landing
Zone and Sector for your drive. Refer to your drive documentation or look on
the drive for this information. If no drive is installed or you are removing a drive
away, select [None] mode.
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The
Access Mode
entry is for IDE hard disks only, and can be ignored for
MFM and ESDI drive. This entry provides four options : [Auto] [Normal] [LBA]
[Large]. Set access mode to the [Normal] for IDE hard disk drive smaller than
528MB. Set it to [LBA] for drive over 528MB that support Logical Block Address-
ing (LBA) to allow large IDE hard disk drive. Set it to [Large] for drive over
528MB that do not support LBA. [Large] type of drive can only be used with MS-
DOS and is very uncommon. Most IDE drive over 528MB support the [LBA]
mode.
