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Menu Item
Type
Cylinders
Heads
Sectors
Maximum Capacity
Total Sectors
Maximum Capacity
Main Menu Items
Settings (default is bold)
User, Auto, None, CD-ROM, IDE/ATAPI
Removable, Other ATAPI
When set to Auto, the values for Cylinders,
Heads, Sectors, Total Sectors, and Maximum
Capacity are displayed but are read only.
When set to Auto, the BIOS detects what the
drive is capable of, not the translation
mechanism that was used to format the drive.
If a drive is run in a mode other than the
mode in which it was partitioned and
formatted, unpredictable results might occur,
including data loss.
When set to None, informs the system to
ignore this drive.
When set to CD-ROM, IDE/ATAPI
Removable, or Other ATAPI, allows the
manual entry for multi-sector transfers, LBA
mode control, 32-bit I/O transfer mode, ultra
DMA mode, and SMART monitor.
When set to User, allows the manual entry of
all the following fields.
CHS Format (label field only)
When Type is Auto, value in the Cylinders
field is auto-detected and field is read only.
When Type is Auto, value in Heads field is
auto-detected and field is read only.
When Type is Auto, value in Sectors field is
auto-detected and field is read only.
xxxx MB
LBA Format (label field only)
xxxxxxxx total sectors
xxxxx MB
Configuring the System 3-9
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