DFI 586STE User Manual page 51

During HDD accessing, the IDE controller will transform the logical ad-
dress described by the sector, head and cylinder number into its own
physical address inside the HDD.
The maximum HDD size supported by the LBA mode is 8.4 gigabytes. It
is obtained by the following formula.
x no. Heads
x no. Sectors
x bytes per sector
Large Mode
Large mode is the extended HDD access mode supported by the sys-
tem board. Some IDE HDDs have more than 1024 cylinders without
LBA support (in some cases, you may not want the LBA mode). This
system board provides another alternative to support these kinds of
HDDs.
The BIOS tells the operating system that the number of cylinders is half
the actual number and that the number of heads is double the actual
number. During disk access, the reverse conversion is done by the
INT13h routine.
Maximum HDD size:
x no. Heads
x no. Sectors
x bytes per sector
Note:
To support LBA or Large mode, address translation software is included
in the Award BIOS HDD Service Routine (INT13h). If you are running
an operating system that bypasses the BIOS INT13 Service Routine,
LBA and Large Mode may fail.
no. Cylinders (1024)
( 255)
( 63)
( 512)
8.4 gigabytes
no. Cylinders (1024)
( 32)
( 63)
( 512)
1 gigabyte
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