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4-10 IDE HDD Auto Detection
The “IDE HDD auto detection” utility is a very useful tool, especially when you
do not know which kind of hard disk type you are using. You can use this utility
to detect the correct disk type installed in the system automatically. But now you
can set HARD DISK TYPE to Auto in the STANDARD CMOS SETUP. You
don’t need the “IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION” utility. The BIOS will Auto-
detect the hard disk size and model on display during POST.
Figure 10: IDE HDD Auto Detection
NOTE: HDD Modes
The Award BIOS supports 3 HDD modes : NORMAL, LBA & LARGE NOR-
MAL mode
Generic access mode in which neither the BIOS nor the IDE controller will make
any transformations during accessing.
The maximum number of cylinders, head & sectors for NORMAL mode are.
1024, 16 & 63
no. Cylinder (1024)
x no. Head ( 16)
x no. Sector ( 63)
x no. per sector ( 512)
528 Megabytes
HARD DISKS TYPE SIZE CYLS HEADS PRECOMP LANDZONE SECTORS MODE
Primary Master :
Select Secondary Slave Option (N=Skip) : N
OPTIONSSIZE CYLS HEAD PRECOMP LANDZ SECTORMODE
2 (Y) 4310 524 255 0 14847 63 LBA
1 4310 14848 9 65535 14847 63 NORMAL
3 4310 928 144 65535 14847 63 LARGE
Note: Some OSes (like SCO-UNIX) must use NORMAL for installation
ESC : Skip
ROM PCI/ISA BIOS(2A6LGPAA)
CMOS SETUP UTILITY
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