AWARD BIOS Description
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With auto-detection
BIOS setup will display all possible modes supported by the HDD including
NORMAL, LBA and LARGE.
If HDD does not support LBA modes, no “LBA” option will be shown.
If the number of physical cylinders is less than or equal to 1024,“LARGE”
option may not be shown.
Users can select their appropriate mode.
With Standard CMOS Setup
CYLS HEADS PRECOMP LAND SECTOR MODE
ZONE
Drive C: User(516MB) 1120
16
65535
1119
59 Normal
Drive D: None(203MB) 684
16
65535
685
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When the HDD type is set to the “user” type, the “MODE” option will be
opened for user to select their own HDD mode.
2. HDD Modes
The Award BIOS supports 3 HDD modes: NORMAL, LBA and LARGE, also
Auto detect.
NORMAL
Generic access mode in which neither the BIOS nor the IDE controller will
make any transformation during accessing. The maximum number of
cylinders, heads and sectors for NORMAL mode are 1024,16 and 63.
If the user sets his HDD to NORMAL mode, the maximum accessible HDD
size will be 528 megabytes even though its physical size may be greater than
that.
LBA (Logical Block Addressing) mode
A new HDD accessing method to overcome the 528 Megabyte bottleneck.
The number of cylinders, heads and sectors shown in setup may not be the
number physically contained in the HDD.
During HDD accessing, the IDE controller will transform the logical address
described by the sector, head and cylinder number into
its own
physical address inside the HDD. The maximum HDD size supported by LBA
mode is 8.4 Gigabytes.
LARGE mode
Some IDE HDDs contains more than 1024 cylinder without LBA support (in
some cases, user do not want LBA). The Award BIOS provides another
alternative to support these kinds of HDD.
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