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BIOS Setup
Hard Disks
This field records the specifications for all non-SCSI hard drives installed
in the system. The onboard PCI IDE connectors provide Primary and Sec-
ondary channels for connecting up to four IDE hard disks or other IDE
devices. Each channel can support up to two hard disks, the first of which
is the
Master
and the second is the
Slave
.
Hard Disk Configurations
Capacity:
The hard disk size. The unit is Bytes.
Cylinder:
The cylinder number of the hard disk.
Head:
The read/write head number of hard disk.
Precomp:
The cylinder number at which the disk drive
changes the write current.
Landing Zone:
The cylinder number that the disk drive heads
(read/write) are seated when the disk drive is
parked.
Sector:
The sector number of each track defined on the
hard disk.
Drive A / Drive B
This field records the types of floppy drives installed in the system. To
enter the configuration value for a particular drive, highlight its corre-
sponding field and then select the drive type using the
left-
or
right-arrow
key.
Floppy 3 Mode Support
This is a Japanese standard floppy type drive. The standard stores 1.2MB
in a 3.5 inch diskette.
Video
Set this field to the type of video display card installed in the system.
Halt On
This field determines which types of errors will cause the system to halt.
