Supero SUPER 370DL3, User Manual

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Chapter 4: BIOS
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BIOS
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.
Cylinders The number of cylinders in the disk drive.
Heads The number of heads.
WPCOM The size of a sector gets progressively smaller as the track
diameter diminishes. Yet each sector must still hold 512 bytes.
WPCOM 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 where WPCOM begins.
Sectors The number of sectors per track. MFM drives have 17 sectors
per track. RLL drives have 26 sectors per track. ESDI drives
have 34 sectors per track. SCSI and IDE drive may have even
more sectors per track.
Boot Sector Virus Protection
This setting allows you to prevent any data from being written the boot
sector of the hard drive. While this may prevent viruses from infecting your
system, you may need to change information here when installing new
programs. The options for this setting are Enabled or Disabled .
Advanced CMOS Setup
Quick Boot
The Settings are Disabled or Enabled . Set to Enabled to permit
AMIBIOS to boot quickly when the computer is powered on. This option
replaces the old Above 1 MB Memory Test Advanced Setup option. The
settings are:
Setting Description
Disabled
AMIBIOS tests all system memory. AMIBIOS waits up to 40
seconds for a READY signal from the IDE hard disk drive.
AMIBIOS waits for .5 seconds after sending a RESET
signal to the IDE drive to allow the IDE drive time to get
ready again. AMIBIOS checks for a <Del> key press and
runs AMIBIOS setup if the key has been pressed.