BIOS
IDE Primary HDDs / IDE Secondary HDDs
The onboard PCI IDE connectors provide Primary and Secondary channels for connecting up to four IDE hard disks or other IDE devices.
Each channel can support up to two hard disks; the first is the "Master" and the second is the "Slave".
Press <Enter> to configure the hard disk. The selections include Auto, Manual, and None. Select 'Manual' to define the drive information manually. You will be asked to enter the following items.
Cylinder: Number of cylinders
Head: Number of read/write heads
Precomp: Write precompensation
Landing Zone: Landing zone
Sector: Number of sectors
The Access Mode selections are as follows:
CHS (HD < 528MB)
LBA (HD > 528MB and supports Logical Block Addressing) Large (for
Auto
Drive A
It identifies the type of floppy disk drive A that has been installed in the
computer. The available specifications are: |
| |
None | 360K, 5.25 in. | 1.2M, 5.25 in. |
720K, 3.5 in. | 1.44M, 3.5 in. | 2.88M, 3.5 in. |
Video
This field, selects the type of video display card installed in your system. You can choose the following video display cards:
EGA/VGA | For EGA, VGA, SEGA, SVGA or PGA monitor adapters. |
| (default) |
CGA 40 | Power up in 40 column mode. |
CGA 80 | Power up in 80 column mode. |
MONO | For Hercules or MDA adapters. |
- 25 -
