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2-18 Chapter 2: BIOS setup
Access Mode [Auto]
The default [Auto] allows automatic detection of an IDE hard disk drive.
Select [CHS] for this item if you set the IDE Primary Master/Slave to
[Manual]. Conguration options: [CHS] [LBA] [Large] [Auto]
Capacity
Displays the auto-detected hard disk capacity. This item is not
congurable.
Cylinder
Shows the number of the hard disk cylinders. This item is not congurable.
Head
Shows the number of the hard disk read/write heads. This item is not
congurable.
Sector
Shows the number of sectors per track. This item is not congurable.
Transfer Mode
Shows the Transfer mode. This item is not congurable.
After entering the IDE hard disk drive information into BIOS, use a disk
utility, such as FDISK, to partition and format new IDE hard disk drives.
This is necessary so that you can write or read data from the hard disk.
Make sure to set the partition of the Primary IDE hard disk drives to
active.