User’s Manual
3.5.1.2 IDE Adapter Setup
The IDE adapters control the hard disk drive. Use a separate sub menu to configure each hard disk drive. The below Figure will shows the IDE primary master sub menu.
Use the following table to configure the hard disk.
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| IDE HDD |
| Press Enter | this channel. If detection is successful, | ||
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| IDE Channel 0 Master |
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| Selecting ‘manual’ lets you set the | ||
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| None | remaining fields on this screen. | |||
| IDE Channel 0 Slave, |
| Selects the type of fixed disk. "User | |||
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| Auto | ||||
| IDE Channel 1 Master, |
| Type" will let you select the number of | |||
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| Manual | ||||
| IDE Channel 1 Slave |
| cylinders, heads, etc. Note: | |||
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| PRECOMP=65535 means NONE ! | ||
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| Normal |
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| Access Mode |
| LBA |
| Choose the access mode for | |
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| Large |
| this hard disk | ||
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| Auto |
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| Auto Display your disk drive | Disk drive capacity (Approximated). | ||
| Capacity |
| Note that this size is usually slightly | |||
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| disk given by a disk checking program. | ||
| The following options are | selectable only if the ‘IDE Channel …’ item is set to ‘Manual’ | ||||
| Cylinder |
| Min = 0 | Set the number of cylinders for this | ||
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| Max = 65535 | hard disk. | |||
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| Head |
| Min = 0 | Set the number of read/write heads | ||
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| Max = 255 | ||||
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| Precomp |
| Min = 0 | **** Warning: Setting a value of 65535 | ||
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| Max = 65535 | means no hard disk | |||
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| Landing zone |
| Min = 0 | **** |
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| Max = 65535 |
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| Sector |
| Min = 0 | Number of sectors per track | ||
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| Max = 255 | ||||
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