[Manual] and [CHS] Settings

Primary IDE Master

Select Menu

Primary IDE Master

[Manual]

Item Specific Help

Access Mode

 

[CHS]

 

Press [Enter] to

 

 

 

 

 

Capacity

 

 

40020 MB

select sector

 

 

 

 

 

addressing method.

Cylinder

[19158]

 

Head

[

16]

 

Sector

[

255]

 

PIO Mode

[ Auto]

 

UDMA Mode

[ Auto]

 

Transfer Mode

 

 

UDMA 4

 

F1

:

Help

↑ ↓

:

Select

Item

-/+

:

Change

Value

F5 :

Setup Defaults

ESC

:

Exit

→←

:

Select

Menu

Enter

:

Select

Sub-menu

F10 :

Save and Exit

Manually enter the number of cylinders, heads and sectors per track for the drive. Refer to the drive documentation or the drive label for this information.

After entering the IDE hard disk drive information into BIOS, use a disk utility, such as FDISK, to partition and format new IDE hard disk drives. This is necessary so that you can write or read data from the hard disk. Make sure to set the partition of the Primary IDE hard disk drives to active.

After making your selections on this sub-menu, press the <Esc> key to return to the Main menu. The Main menu displays the hard disk drive field with your configuration.

Access Mode [Auto]

Select the hard disk drive type from this field. When Logical Block Addressing (LBA) is enabled, the 28-bit addressing of the hard drive is used without regard for cylinders, heads, or sectors. Note that LBA Mode is necessary for drives with more than 504 MB storage capacity. Select [CHS] to make manual entries for configuring the fields below.

Configuration options: [CHS] [LBA] [Large] [Auto]

Capacity

Displays the hard disk drive capacity in MB or GB. This item is non-configurable.

Cylinder

Configures the number of cylinders. Refer to the drive documentation to determine the correct value.

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