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3-18 CHAPTER 3
Note:
To support LBA or LARGE mode of HDDs, there must be some
softwares involved. All these softwares are located in the Award
HDD Service Routine (1NT 13h). It may be failed to access a
HDD with LBA (LARGE) mode selected if you are running under
a Operating System which replaces the whole 1NT 13h.
UNIX operating systems do not support either LBA or LARGE and must
utility the Standard mode. UNIX can support drives larger than 528MB.
3-10 HDD LOW LEVEL FORMAT
Interleave
Slect the interleave number of the hard disk drive you wish to perform low
level format. You may select from 1 to 8. Check the documentation that
came with the drive for the correct interleave number, or select 0 for utility
automatic detection.
Auto scan bad track
This allows the utility to scan first then format by each track.
Start
Press<Y>to start low level format.
3-11 SAVE & EXIT SETUP
The "SAVE & EXIT SETUP" option will bring you back to boot up procedure
with all the changes you just made which are recorded in the CMOS RAM.
3-12 EXIT WITHOUT SAVING
The "EXIT WITHOUT SAVING" option will bring you back to normal boot
up procedure without saving any data into CMOS RAM. All of the old data in
the CMOS will not be destroyed.
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