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7.1.2 IDE HDD Disks [Auto]
Selecting "IDE Primary Master" on the Standard CMOS Features screen display this
menu:
Press <Enter> key to automatically detect an IDE hard disk drive. If automatic detection is
successful, the correct values will be filled in the remaining fields on this screen. Displayed
up are explanation of the Maxtor Diamond 5.7GB HDD.
If automatic detection fails, your hard disk drive may be to older too, now. You can
try updating your BIOS or enter the correct parameters manually. Press the <PgUp>
or <PgDn> key to [Manual] mode on the IDE Primary Master screen. Manually
enter Access Mode, number of Cylinder, Head, Precomp, Landing Zone and Sec-
tor for your drive. Refer to your drive documentation or look on the drive for this
information. If no drive is installed or you are removing a drive away, select [None]
mode.
The Access Mode entry is for IDE hard disks only, and can be ignored for MFM
and ESDI drive. This entry provides four options : [Auto] [Normal] [LBA] [Large].
Set access mode to the [Normal] for IDE hard disk drive smaller than 528MB. Set
it to [LBA] for drive over 528MB that support Logical Block Addressing (LBA) to
allow large IDE hard disk drive. Set it to [Large] for drive over 528MB that do not
support LBA. [Large] type of drive can only be used with MS-DOS and is very
uncommon. Most IDE drive over 528MB support the [LBA] mode.
After the IDE hard disk drive information has been entered into BIOS, new IDE
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