Supero SUPER P6DGH, User Manual

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BIOS User's Manual
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is best to select Auto to allow AMIBIOS to determine
the PIO mode. If you select a PIO mode that is not
supported by the IDE drive, the drive will not work
properly. If you are absolutely certain that you know
the drive's PIO mode, select PIO mode 0-4, as
appropriate.
CD Select Type. Select CDROM. Click on OK when
ROM AMIBIOS displays the drive parameters.
Entering Drive Parameters
You can also enter the hard disk drive parameters. The drive parameters
are:
Parameter Description
Type The number of a drive with certain identification parameters.
Cylinders The number of cylinders in the disk drive.
Heads The number of heads.
Write The size of sectors get progressively smaller as the track
Precompensation diameter diminishes. Yet each sector must still hold 512 bytes.
Write precompensation 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 states the
track number where write precompensation 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 drives may have even
more sectors per track.
Capacity The capacity of the formatted drive is (Number of heads) x
(Number of cylinders) x (Number of sectors per track) x (512
bytes per sector)