AUTO DETECT HARD DISK
Use this BIOS utility to automatically detect popular IDE hard disk type if
it is not readily available. It is not guaranteed than this utility will work
with all IDE hard disk. There is no need to use this utility if you already
have hard disk type information.
HARD DISK UTILITY
Use this option to do low-level harddisk 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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