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Standard CMOS Setup
Date (mm/dd/yyyy), Time (hh/mm/ss)
To set the system date and time, use TAB to move the prompt and select a field (hours,
minutes, or seconds). Use the plus key (+) to increase the number; use the minus key (-) to
decrease the number. To select a previous field, press
SHIFT+TAB.
Floppy Drive A: and B:
Move the cursor to these fields via
↑
and
↓
and select the floppy type. The settings are 360
KB 5¼ inch, 1.2 MB 5¼ inch, 720 KB 3½ inch, 1.44 MB 3½ inch, and 2.88 MB 3½ inch.
Primary (Master/Slave), Secondary (Master/Slave)
Select these options to configure the drive named in the option. Select Auto to let BIOS
automatically configure the drive. A list of drive parameters appears.
Entering Drive Parameters
You can also enter the hard disk drive parameters. The drive parameters are:
Parameter
Description
Type The number for a drive with certain identification parameters.
Size The formatted capacity of the drive is the number of heads times
the number of cylinders times the number of sectors per track
times 512 (bytes per sector).
Cyln The number of cylinders in the disk drive.
Head The number of heads.
WPcom The actual physical size of a sector gets progressively smaller as
the track diameter diminishes. Yet each sector must still hold 512
bytes. Write precompensation circuitry on the hard disk
compensates for the physical difference in sector size by boosting
the write current for sectors on inner tracks. This parameter is the
track number on the disk surface where write precompensation
begins.
LBA Mode Toggles Logical Block Addressing mode.
Block Mode Toggles multi-sector transfer mode.
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