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IDE Devices
When you select one of the IDE devices, a submenu will pop up. Refer to the
picture below.
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IDE xxxx
IDE HDD Auto Detection
Press Enter
Item Help
IDE Primary Master
Auto
Menu Level
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Access Mode
Auto
To auto-detect the HDD’s size, head… on this
Capacity
0 MB
channel
Cylinder
0
Head
0
Precomp
0
Landing Zone
0
Sector
0
This Menu is the same for all 4 IDE devices:
Primary Master IDE 1 first device
Primary Slave IDE 1 second device
Secondary Master IDE 2 first device
Secondary Slave IDE 2 second device
Values
Meaning
IDE HDD
Auto
Detection
Press Enter
Pressing Enter will make the BIOS auto detect the IDE device
on this channel. The result will be displayed below, starting
with the ‘capacity’ item. (These items are read only)
Auto
This will auto detect the device at each boot up.
Manual
This will use the setting set by the user. No auto detection at
start up will take place.
IDE xxx
None
This setting means no device is present. This will prevent the
BIOS from looking for a device and speed up booting.
CHS
Selects the CHS access mode.
LBA
Logical Block Addressing, for HDD drives larger than 504MB
(All modern HDDs)
Large
For very large HDDs.
Access
Mode
Auto
The BIOS will automatically detect the best access mode.