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The menu can differ in appearance, sets of items and their names, depending on
the BIOS manufacturer. The most widely known BIOS makers for PC motherboards
are Award/Phoenix and AMI. Moreover, while items in the standard setup menu are
mostly the same for various BIOSes, items of the extended setup heavily depend on
the computer and BIOS version.
Below we describe the general principles of initial hard disk configuration.

Large PC manufacturers like Dell and Hewlett-Packard produce motherboards themselves,
and develop their own BIOS versions. You should always refer to the documentation that

came with your computer for instructions on proper BIOS configuration.

B.2.2

Standard CMOS setup menu

Parameters in the standard CMOS setup menu usually define the geometry of the
hard disk. The following parameters (and values) are available for each hard disk
installed in your PC:

Parameter Value

Purpose

Type 1-47,

Not

Installed,
Auto

Type 0 or Not Installed is used when there is no
hard disk installed (to uninstall it). Type 47 is
reserved for user-defined parameters or for
parameters detected by the IDE Auto detection
utility.

Auto value allows for automatic detection of IDE
disk parameters during the boot sequence.

Cylinder (Cyl)

1-65535

The number of cylinders on a hard disk. For IDE
disks, a logical number of cylinders are specified.

Heads (Hd)

1-16

The number of heads on a hard disk. For IDE
disks, a logical number of heads are specified.

Sectors (Sec)

1-63

The number of sectors per track of a hard disk. For
IDE disks, a logical number of sectors are
specified.

Size (Capacity) MBytes

The capacity of the disk in megabytes. It is
calculated according to the following formula:

Size=(Cyl x Hds x Sec x 512) / 1024 / 1024.

Mode
(Translation
Method)

Normal/
LBA/
Large/Auto

Method of translation of sector addresses.

For example, to demonstrate the main features of Seagate BlackArmor Backup, we
used a Quantum

Fireball

TM1700A hard disk as one of the disks in our

examples. Its parameters have the following values:

Parameter Value

Type Auto

Cylinder (Cyl)

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