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Fig 3-2 Standard CMOS Setup Menu
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Set up of HDD operating mode
[
NORMAL,
LBA, LARGE
]
Since old operating systems were only able to support HDD
whose capacity was not bigger than 528MB, any hard disk with
more than 528MB was unusable. AWARD BIOS features a
solution to this problem: you can, according to your operating
system, choose three operating modes: NORMAL, LBA or
LARGE.
Normal mode:
Standard normal mode supports hard disks of 528MB
or less. This mode directly uses positions indicated by
Cylinders (CYLS), Heads, and Sectors to access data.
LBA (Logical Block Addressing) mode:
LBA mode supports hard disk drives up to 8.4Giga.
This mode uses a different method to calculate the
position of disk data to be accessed. It translates
Cylinders (CYLS), Heads and Sectors into a logical
address where data are located. The Cylinders, Heads,
and Sectors displayed in this menu do not reflect the
actual structure of the hard disk, they are just reference