Standard CMOS Setup

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Set the drive type to Auto to have AMIBIOS detect the drive type and parameters automatically each time the system is booted up. This option does not display the drive type on the Standard CMOS Setup screen, but does display it on the System Configuration screen shown after a successful bootup.

Select the Auto-Detect Hard Disks option on the AMIBIOS Setup Main Menu to have AMIBIOS automatically detect the type and parameters of each hard drive and place the information into the Standard CMOS Setup screen. The detected drive type values may then be saved in the CMOS. This option is described in the Running AMIBIOS Setup section of the System BIOS chapter of this manual.

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NOTE: The auto detect feature displays disk parameter values as established by the drive manufacturer. If the drive has been formatted using any other values, accepting the auto detect values will cause erratic behavior. You must either reformat the drive to meet the manufacturer's specifications or use the User type to enter parameters which match the current format of the drive.

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User-Defined Drive Types

If the parameters supplied by the manufacturer of your disk drive do not match any of the preprogrammed drive types provided by AMIBIOS, you may enter the parameters manually.

The user-defined parameters for each of the four drives may be different, which effec- tively allows four different user-definable hard disk types.

Scroll to the end of the drive type list to the User type. You can manually enter the Cyln, Head, WPcom and Sec parameters. The Size parameter is automatically calculated and displayed by the system based on the other parameters entered.

Use the arrow keys or tab key to move between fields. Once you have placed the cursor in a field, type in the correct value.

The following explains the drive parameters which you must enter for a drive type which is not in the list:

Type is the numeric designation for a drive with certain identification param- eters.

Cylinders (Cyln) is the number of disk cylinders found in the specified drive type.

Heads (Head) is the number of disk heads found in the specified drive type.

Write Precompensation (WPcom) is the read delay circuitry which takes into account the timing differences between the inner and outer edges of the surface of the disk. The size of the sector gets progressively smaller as the track diameter diminishes. Yet each sector must still hold 512 bytes. Write precom- pensation circuitry on the hard disk compensates for the physical difference in

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S5721-xxx specifications

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