Siemens Nixdorf D931, Technical Manual

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Settings in BIOS Setup
Main menu - System settings
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If you have installed a new unrecorded IDE hard disk drive, you should mark the
Autotype Hard Disk
field and press Enter. This has the effect of setting the optimum
values for the IDE hard disk drive. You can change these values if you set the
Type
field to
User
.
Type - Hard Disk Type
This field is used to specify the type of hard disk drive installed.
None
You cannot change the hard disk parameters (
Cylinders, Heads,
Sector/Track
and
Write Precomp
). An IDE drive has not been
installed.
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to
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The hard disk parameters (
Cylinders, Heads
, etc.) are preset.
Auto
If the hard disk supports this mode, the setup menu reads the hard
disk parameters from the disk itself and sets them automatically.
You do not need to select the parameters yourself.
User
You can enter the hard disk parameters (
Cylinders, Heads
etc.)
yourself.
If you have set the hard disk parameters with
Autotype Hard Disk
,
you can only reduce the values.
Examples of user-defined entries (IDE drives):
hard disk hard disk capacity
parameter 850 Mbyte 1 Gbyte 1,6 Gbyte
Cylinders 1654 2097 3148
Heads 16 16 16
Sectors 63 63 63
Write Precomp None None None
CD
If an ATAPI CD-ROM drive is mounted, this entry enables you to
boot from the CD-ROM drive.
Cylinders, Heads, Sectors/Track, Write Precomp - hard disk parameter
These hard disk parameters are set in accordance with the IDE hard disk drive. If
you want to change the hard disk parameters manually, set the
Type
field to
User
.