BIOS
4-10 IDE HDD Auto Detection
The “IDE HDD auto detection” utility is a very useful tool, especially when you do not know which kind of hard disk type you are using. You can use this utility to detect the correct disk type installed in the system automatically. But now you can set HARD DISK TYPE to Auto in the STANDARD CMOS SETUP. You don’t need the “IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION” utility. The BIOS will
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CMOSSETUPUTILITY
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| OPTIONS SIZE | CYLS | HEAD | PRECOMP | LANDZ SECTORMODE | ||||
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| 2 (Y) | 4310 | 524 | 255 | 0 | 14847 | 63 | LBA | |
| 1 | 4310 | 14848 | 9 | 65535 | 14847 | 63 | NORMAL | ||
| 3 | 4310 | 928 | 144 | 65535 | 14847 | 63 | LARGE | ||
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N o t e : S o m e O S e s ( l i k e S C O - U N I X ) m u s t u s e N O R M A L f o r i n s t a l l a t i o n
ESC : Skip
Figure 10: IDE HDD Auto Detection
NOTE: HDD Modes
The Award BIOS supports 3 HDD modes : NORMAL, LBA & LARGE NORMAL mode
Generic access mode in which neither the BIOS nor the IDE controller will make any transformations during accessing.
The maximum number of cylinders, head & sectors for NORMAL mode are 1024, 16 & 63.
no. Cylinder | (1024) |
x no. Head | ( 16) |
x no. Sector | ( 63) |
x no. per sector | ( 512) |
528 Megabytes
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