Intel ATC6430M appendix Award Bios Setup

ATC6430M Mainboard Chapter 3 Award BIOS Setup

IDE Primary Master; Primary Slave Secondary Master; Secondary Slave

Press Enter to enter next page for detailed hard drive settings:

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IDE Primary Master

IDE HDD Auto-Detection		Press Enter			Item Help
					Menu Level	ØØ
IDE Primary Master	Auto
					To auto-detect the
Capacity	2557 MB
					HDD size, head..
Access Mode	Auto
					on this channel
Cylinder	4956
Head	16
Precomp	0
Landing Zone	4955
Sector	63
−↓←→Move Enter: Select +/-/PU/PD: Value F10:Save				ESC: Exit F1:General Help
F5:Previous Values F6:Fail-safe defaults			F7:Optimized Defaults

IDE HDD Auto-DetectionPress Enter to auto-detect the HDD. If detection is successful, it fills the remaining fields on this menu.

IDE Primary Master If you select ‘Auto’, the BIOS will detect the HDD & CD-ROM Drive automatically at the POST stage and show the IDE for HDD & CD-ROM Drive. If you select ‘manual’, please contact your hard disk vendor or dealer to get the information listed below. Then enter the figure directly and press <Enter>.

The following options are selectable only if the IDE Primary Master item is set to “Manual”.

Cylinder	number of cylinders
Head	number of read/write heads
Precomp	write precomp
Landing Zone	landing zone
Sector	number of sectors per track

Capacity Displays your disk drive size.

Access Mode Choose the access mode for the hard disk. The choices: Normal, LBA, Large, Auto.

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