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starts with the hard disk that would be the third in usual circumstances (it is usually
the secondary master).
After you have installed the hard disk in your computer and have configured it in
BIOS, one can say that the PC (or the motherboard) «knows» about its existence
and its main parameters. However, it is still not enough for an operating system to
work with the hard disk.
A.2.4
AwardBIOS
Below, we provide an example of configuring hard disks in AwardBIOS.
The Main AwardBIOS menu, which is responsible for configuring hard disks on
motherboards for Celeron, Pentium II, III, IV and AMD Athlon, Duron and Sempron
processors usually looks like this:
Main
Advanced
System Time
System Date
Legacy Diskette A
Legacy Diskette B
Floppy 3 Mode Support
Primary Master
Primary Slave
Secondary Master
Secondary Slave
Language
Supervisor Password
User Password
Halt On
Installed Memory
F1
Help ↓
←→ Select Menu Enter Select Sub-Menu F10 Save and Exit
Esc Exit
Place the marker on the Primary Master line and press the Enter key to get to the
screen that looks like this:
Main
Primary Master [Auto]
Type
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AwardBIOS Setup Utility
Power
Boot
[16:16:35]
[01/10/2001]
[1.44M, 3.5in]
[None]
[Disabled]
[Auto]
[Auto]
[Auto]
[Auto]
[English]
[Disabled]
[Disabled]
[All but Disk/Keyboard]
[Disabled]
Select Item
-/+
Change Values
AwardBIOS Setup Utility
[Auto]
Appendix A Hard disks and BIOS setup
Exit
Item Specific Help:
<Enter> to go to sub-
menu.
F5
Setup Defaults
Item Specific Help:
<Enter> to select the type
of the IDE drive.
[User Type HDD] allows
you to set each entry on
your own.
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