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MiniStation All-in-One Petit Board User’s Manual

Award BIOS Setup

HARD DISKS TYPE SIZE CYLS HEAD PRECOMP LANDZ SECTOR MODE

Primary Master :

5.14 IDE HDD Auto Detection

The Enhance IDE feature is included in all Award BIOS. The following is a brief description of this feature.

1. Setup Changes

<I> Auto-detection

BIOS setup will display all possible modes supported by the HDD including NORMAL, LBA &

LARGE.

If HDD does not support LBA modes, no ’LBA’ option will be shown.

Users can select a mode appropriate for them.

ROM/PCI/ISA BOPS (2XXXXXXX)

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<II> Standard CMOS Setup

CYLS Heads Precomp Landzone Sector Mode

Primary Master :User(516MB) 1120 16 65535 1119 59 NORMAL

Primary Slave :None (203MB) 684 16 65535 685 38 ----------

Secondary Master : None 0 0 0 0 0 0

Secondary Slave : None 0 0 0 0 0 0

When HDD type is in ‘user’ type, the ”MODE” option will be open for user to select HDD mode.

2. 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

If user sets his HDD to NORMAL mode, the maximum accessible HDD size will be 528MB even though its

physical size may be greater than that!

Select Primary Master Option (N = Skip ) : N

OPTION SIZE CYLS HEADS PRECOMP LANDZONE SECTORS MODE

1 (Y) 516 1120 16 65535 1119 59 NORMAL

2 516 524 32 0 1119 63 LBA

3 516 560 32 65535 1119 59 LARGE