Hard Disk Configuration; Standard Cmos Setup Options - American Megatrends EZ-Flex User Manual

Standard CMOS Setup Options,

Time Configuration
Move the cursor to the Time field with
time by pressing <PgUp> and <PgDn> to change values.

Hard Disk Configuration

The hard disk drive parameters are:
Parameter
Type
Cylinders
Heads
Write Precompensation
Landing Zone
Sectors
Capacity
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The number designation for a drive with certain identification
parameters.
The number of cylinders in the disk drive.
The number of heads.
The size of a sector gets progressively smaller as the track
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.
This number is the cylinder location where the heads normally park
when the system is shut down.
The number of sectors per track. Hard drives that use MFM have
17 sectors per track. RLL drives have 26 sectors per track. ARLL
and ESDI drives have 34 sectors per track. IDE and SCSI drives
can have even more sectors per track.
The formatted capacity of the drive based on the following formula:
(Number of heads) X (Number of cylinders) X (Number of sectors
per track) X (512 bytes/sec)
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