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Chapter 4
BIOS Setup
Cylinders
Set the number of cylinders for this hard disk.
Heads
Set the number of read/write heads
Precom p
Write precompensation.
Sectors
Set the number of sectors per track
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I DE Pr im ar y M as ter / Pri m ary Slave / Second ary M aste r /
Secondary Slave
This field specifies type of drive that corresponds to the driver
installed in your system. If you select User, please specify the
correct number of Cylinders, Heads, and Sectors.
Manual
Select anual lets you set the remaining fields on
this screen. Select the type of fixed disk.
Auto
(Default Vaule)
BIOS automatically fills in the values for the
cylinders, heads and sectors fields.
None
Any Disk Drivers are attached.
Capacity Auto Display your disk drive size
Access M ODE
This field specifies the IDE translation mode.
NORMAL
Specifies traditional CHS addressing mode.
LARGE
Specifies extended CHS translation mode
LBA
Specifies LBA translation mode.
AUTO
(Default Vaule)
BIOS specifies translation method automatically.
