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.
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| IDE HDD |
| Press Enter | this channel. If detection is successful, | |
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| Selecting ‘manual’ lets you set the | |
| IDE Primary Master |
| None | remaining fields on this screen. | |
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| Selects the type of fixed disk. "User | |||
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| Auto | |||
| IDE Primary Slave, |
| Type" will let you select the number of | ||
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| PRECOMP=65535 means NONE ! | |
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| CHS | Choose the access mode for this hard | |
| Access Mode |
| LBA | disk | |
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| 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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| Sector |
| Min = 0 | Number of sectors per track | |
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| Max = 255 | |||
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