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Enter your choice, and press <Enter> to accept the parameters or press
<Esc> to abort. The parameters of the hard disk will be displayed in the
Standard CMOS Setup.
Hard Drive Mode
The G586IPC supports three HDD modes: Normal, LBA and Large. If
your hard disk drive does not support LBA mode, the “LBA” option will
not be displayed. If your HDD has 1024 or fewer cylinders, the “Large”
option will not be displayed.
Normal Mode
The Normal mode is the generic access mode in which neither the
BIOS nor the IDE controller will make any transformations during hard-
drive access.
The maximum number of cylinders, heads and sectors for Normal mode
are 1024, 16 and 63, respectively.
no. Cylinders
(1024)
x no. Heads
( 16)
x no. Sectors
( 63)
x bytes per sector
( 512)
528 megabytes
If you set your HDD to Normal mode, the maximum accessible HDD will
be 528 megabytes even though the physical size of the HDD may be
greater than that.
