AcerAltos 19000 User’s Guide
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7.6 BIOS Startup Messages
After you have configured your SCSI controller, the SCSI controller BIOS displays
a message when you boot your computer. Normally, this message lists the SCSI
ID, manufacturer, model number and other information for each SCSI device that
the BIOS detects.
If an initialization failure occurs, however, the SCSI controller BIOS displays a
specific error message followed by a BIOS Installation Failure message. Here are
some of these error messages and their meaning:
WARNING!!!
A drive larger than 1 gigabyte has been detected with 64 head / 32 sector
partitioning. This drive is not compatible with the 255 head / 63 sector
translation which has been enabled on this adapter. Data could be
corrupted! Please check your system setup!
Press any key to continue.
This message occurs only if Extended BIOS Translation is enabled in the
SCSISelect utility. It means that the BIOS detected a large capacity drive with
invalid partition information in the master boot record.
Extended BIOS Translation is used only with MS-DOS 5.0 or above. You do not
need to enable this option if you are using another operating system such as
OS/2® or UNIX®.
If you are using a drive larger than 1 GByte under MS-DOS 5.0 or above and this
message appears, do the following:
1. Run the SCSISelect utility and set Extended BIOS Translation to Disabled.
(See Extended BIOS Translation for DOS Drives > 1 GByte in the Advanced
Configuration Options section)
2. Exit from the SCSISelect utility and back up the data on the disk drive, if you
want to save it.