Digital Equipment Celebris FX, Service Maintenance Manual

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BIOS Setup Utility
2-5
Menu Fields Settings Comments
Cylinders
(1) 0 to 4095
Displays the number of cylinders.
Heads
(1)
1 to 64
Displays the number of heads.
Sectors/track
(1) 0 to 63
Displays the number of sectors/track.
Write precomp
(1) 0 to 4095
None
Displays the number of cylinders that have their
write timing changed.
Multi-sector transfers
Disabled*
2 sectors
4 sectors
8 sectors
16 sectors
Auto
Determines the number of sectors per block for
multiple sector transfers.
Auto refers to the size the disk returns when
queried.
LBA control mode
Disabled*
Enabled
Enabling this option causes Logical Block
Addressing (LBA) instead of cylinders and heads.
Select
Disabled
for IDE hard disk drives that are
up to 528 MB in size. When using an IDE drive
larger than 528 MB and an operating system that
supports LBA, select
Enable
. MS-DOS and
Windows are examples of operating systems that
support LBA.
32-bit I/O
Enabled
Disabled*
Enables or disables the 32-bit, hard disk drive
data transfer option. Enabling this option speeds
up data transfers; ensure that your HDD supports
32-bit I/O transfers.
Transfer mode
Standard*
Fast PIO1
Fast PIO2
Fast PIO3
Fast PI04
Selects the method to transfer data to and from
the HDD. If you select the user autotype for the
HDD, Setup automatically selects the optimum
transfer mode is selected.
Video system
EGA / VGA*
CGA 80x25
Monochrome
Sets the video controller type.
(1)
These fields are automatically filled in if the computer auto-detected an installed hard disk drive.
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