Hdd Low Level Format; Save & Exit Setup; Exit Without Saving - EPOX P55-TX 2 User Manual

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4-20 CHAPTER 4

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 an Operating

System which replaces the whole 1NT 13h. UNIX operating systems do not support either

LBA or LARGE and must utilize the Standard mode. However UNIX can support drives

larger than 528MB.

4-10 HDD Low Level Format

Interleave

Select 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 of 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.

4-11 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.

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 upduted.

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