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Standard Setup
Hard Disk C: Type
Hard Disk D: Type
Select one of these hard disk drive icons to configure the drive named
in the option. A scrollable screen that lists all valid disk drive types
is displayed. Select the correct type and press <Enter>. If the hard
disk drive is an IDE drive, select Detect C: or Detect D: from the
Utility section of the WinBIOS Setup main menu to have AMIBIOS
automatically detect the IDE drive parameters and report them to this
screen.
Entering Drive Parameters
You can also enter the hard disk drive parameters. The drive parameters
are:
Parameter
Type
Cylinders
Heads
Write
Precompens
ation
Landing
Zone
Sectors
Capacity
Super Voyager VLB-III ISA Motherboard User's Guide
Description
The number 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 will
normally park when the system is
shut down.
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.
The formatted capacity of the
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