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Floppy Drive A: and B:
Move the cursor to these fields via
↑
and
↓
and select the floppy type. The settings are 360 KB
5¼ inch, 1.2 MB 5¼ inch, 720 KB 3½ inch, 1.44 MB 3½ inch, and 2.88 MB 3½ inch.
Primary (Master/Slave), Secondary (Master/Slave)
Select these options to configure the drive named in the option. Select Auto to let BIOS
automatically configure the drive. A list of drive parameters appears.
Entering Drive Parameters
You can also enter the hard disk drive parameters. The drive parameters are:
Parameter
Description
Type
The number for a drive with certain identification parameters.
Size
The formatted capacity of the drive is the number of heads times
the number of cylinders times the number of sectors per track
times 512 (bytes per sector).
Cyln
The number of cylinders in the disk drive.
Head
The number of heads.
WPcom
The actual physical size of a sector gets progressively smaller as
the track diameter diminishes. Yet each sector must still hold 512
bytes. Write precompensation circuitry on the hard disk
compensates for the physical difference in sector size by boosting
the write current for sectors on inner tracks. This parameter is the
track number on the disk surface where write precompensation
begins.
LBA Mode
Toggles Logical Block Addressing mode.
Block Mode
Toggles multi-sector transfer mode.
PIO Mode
Sets the transfer speed. The slowest speed is PIO Mode 0; the
fastest speed is PIO Mode 5, or Ultra DMA mode.
32 Bit Mode
Toggles 32 bit transfer mode.
Sectors
The number of sectors per cylinder. MFM drives have 17 sectors
per track. RLL drives have 26 sectors per track. ESDI drives have
34 sectors per track. SCSI and IDE drives have even more sectors
per track.
Boot Sector Virus Protection
This parameter toggles virus protection for the boot sector of the system drive. The Optimal
default setting is Disabled.
