BIOS Setup
Section 2
MVE486 System Board
for any size disk drive installed.
If an IDE or
BUS” drive is installed, the Mylex BIOS is capable
of automatically setting the configuration.
Use
in the BIOS for IDE drives if you wish
to have the BIOS automatically set the drive pa-
rameters.
If a problem arises using the
setting, review the documentation
provided with the disk/drive controller and set the
parameters
Hard drive
refers to the first physical drive in the
system, “2” refers to the second drive in the system,
Additional drives must be configured with device
drivers. For more information on device drivers,
refer to the operating guide of the operation system
being used.
There are 49 options available. They are: None,
for no hard disk installed,
47
predefined disk drives
and one user definable drive option. Refer to infor-
mation provided with the disk drive for the proper
drive setting. If none of the preset listings apply to
the drive being installed, select type
“48”
and then
to begin programming. Use the right and left
arrow keys to move through the fields and the
and
keys to change the variables in each field
defining particular information on the number of
cylinders (CYLND), heads (HEAD), sectors per
track
write precompensation
COM), and landing zone
The total ca-
pacity of the drive will automatically be determined
after the definable fields have been specified.
Once all the definable fields have been specified,
press
to exit the programming option for drive
types.
Math
Coprocessor
The option should always read “Installed.” If it does
not, check the microprocessor.
Error
Condition
The three options are: Halt, No Halt (on any error),
When an error occurs during the
POST, the “Halt” selection will cause a prompt to be
displayed providing the option to continue or enter
The “No Halt” option will simply display the
error but will continue to boot the system without
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