VIA693A System Board 32
Hard Disk Configurations
1. TYPE
: Select
"USER"
to fill the remaining fields. Select
"AUTO"
to
detect the HDD type automatically. Selecting
“NONE,”
the
system will not detect hard disk type.
2. SIZE
:
the hard disk size. The unit is mega byte(MB).
3. CYLS
:
the cylinder number of the hard disk.
4. HEAD
:
the read/write head number of hard disk. The range is from
"1" to
"16".
5. PRECOMP
: the cylinder number at which the disk drive changes the write
timing.
6. LANDZ
: the cylinder number that the disk drive heads (read/write) are
seated when the disk drive is parked.
7. SECTOR
: the sector number of each track defined on the hard disk. The
range is from
"1"
to
"64".
8. MODE
: select
"AUTO"
to detect the mode type automatically. If your
hard disk supports the
LBA
mode, select
"LBA"
or
"LARGE".
However, if your hard disk cylinder is more than 1024 and does
not support the LBA function, you have to set at
"LARGE.”
Select
"NORMAL"
if your hard disk supporting cylinder is
below 1024.
Note1:
if hard disk primary master/slave and secondary master/slave were set
to
“auto,”
the hard disk size and model will be auto detected on display during
POST.
Note2:
"halt on"
is to determine when to halt the system by the BIOS if error
occurs during POST.
