SUPER MICRO Computer Super PIIIDME Advanced Cmos Setup, Entering Drive Parameters, Quick Boot

Chapter 4: BIOS

Entering Drive Parameters

You can also enter the hard disk drive parameters. The drive parameters are:

Parameter	Description
Type	The number for a drive with certain identification parameters.
Cylinders	The number of cylinders in the disk drive.
Heads	The number of heads.
Write	The size of a sector gets progressively smaller as the track
Precompensation	diameter diminishes. Yet each sector must still hold 512 bytes.
	Write precompensation circuitry on the hard disk compensates
	for the physical difference in sector size by boosting the write
	current for sectors on inner tracks. This parameter is the track
	number where write precompensation begins.
Sectors	The number of sectors per track. MFM drives have 17 sectors
	per track. RLL drives have 26 sectors per track. ESDI drives
	have 34 sectors per track. SCSI and IDE drive may have even
	more sectors per track.
Capacity	The formatted capacity of the drive is (Number of heads) x
	(Number of cylinders) x (Number of sectors per track) x (512
	bytes per sector)

Boot Sector Virus Protection

This setting allows you to prevent any data from being written the boot sector of the hard drive. While this may prevent viruses from infecting your system, you may need to change information here when installing new programs. The options for this setting are Enabled or Disabled.

Advanced CMOS Setup

Quick Boot

The Settings are Disabled or Enabled. Set to Enabled to permit AMIBIOS to boot quickly when the computer is powered on. This option replaces the old Above 1 MB Memory Test Advanced Setup option. The settings are:

Setting Description

Disabled AMIBIOS tests all system memory. AMIBIOS waits up to 40 seconds for a READY signal from the IDE hard disk drive. AMIBIOS waits for .5 seconds after sending a RESET signal to the IDE drive to allow the IDE drive time to get ready again.

BIOS

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