Samsung N860 User Manual page 66

System Date: Sets your computer to the date that you specify, usually the current
date. Enter the month, day, and year in the form at mm:dd:yyyy. Use the tab key to
move between the month, day, and year cells. Use the hyphen key <-> or <Space>
bar to decrease or increase the numbers. This field supports year dates of 2000 and
beyond.
Legacy Diskette A: Specifies a drive type for floppy drive A. 1.44 MB, 3 1/
2"(default) floppy disk can be used.
Primary Master and Secondary Master: Your computer can support two IDE
drives. The Main menu contains two IDE adapter fields to configure these drives.
Primary Master defines the hard drive installed in the computer. Secondary
Master defines the CD-ROM and DVD-ROM drives or Removable drives.
To configure a replacement or upgrade hard drive, move the cursor to select the
Primary Master field in the System Setup Main menu, and then press the <Enter>
key. The submenu appears.
Normally, you can use the Auto option of the Type field in the submenu to
automatically set the values for the other fields in the submenu. Manually set the
other fields in this submenu only if the drive you have installed in your computer
is not recognized by System Setup.
After you make your selections from this submenu, press the <Esc> key to exit
back to the Main menu.
The Primary and Secondary Master fields calls up a submenu. The following fields
are found in the submenu:
Type: Configures the hard drive type. Normally, select Auto at this field to
have your computer attempt to automatically detect the drive type and set the
values for the remaining fields in this submenu manually, specify User.
Manually enter the number of cylinders, heads, sectors per track, and write
precompensation for your drive. Refer to your drive's user documentation or
look on the drive to obtain this information.
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Set the Auto option of the Type field in the Secondary Master
submenu to enable the system to boot from Bootable CD-
ROMs, you will also need to check the boot device priority
field and Bootable CD check field.
Before attempting to configure a hard drive, make sure you
have the configuration information supplied by the
manufacturer of the hard drive. Incorrect drive settings can
cause your computer to malfunction.