Intel SDS2 - Manual (Page 70)

BIOS Intel® Server Board SDS2
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Feature Option Description
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Table 33. Primary Master and Slave IDE Submenu Selections
Feature Option Description
Type Auto
None
CDROM
User
ATAPI Removable
IDE Removable
Other ATAPI
Select the byte of device that is attached to the IDE.
Channel.
If User is selected, the user will need to enter the
parameters of IDE device (cylinders, head and
sectors).
CHS format
Cylinders 1 to 2048 Number of Cylinders on Drive. This field is only
changeable for Type User.
This field is informational only, for Type Auto.
CHS format Heads 1 to 16 Number of read/write heads on Drive. This field is
only available for Type User.
This field is informational only, for Type Auto.
CHS format Sectors 1 to 64 Number of Sectors per Track. This field is only
available for Type User.
This field is informational only, for Type Auto.
CHS format
Maximum Capacity See description Computed size of Drive from Cylinders, Heads, and
Sectors entered. This field is only available for Type
User.
This field is informational only, for Type Auto.
LBA Format
Total Sectors
Information Only Total number of sectors on the drive that are
addressable in LBA format.
LBA Format
Maximum Capacity
Information Only Capacity of the drive while using LBA addressing.
This value may be higher than the ‘Maximum
Capacity’ above for drives bigger than 8.4 GB.
Multi-Sector Transfer Disabled
2 Sectors
4 Sectors
8 Sectors
16 Sectors
Specifies the number of sectors that are transferred
per block during multiple sector transfers.
This field is informational only, for Type Auto.
LBA Mode Control Disabled
Enabled
Enable/Disable LBA instead of cylinder, head,
sector, addressing.
This field is informational only, for Type Auto.
32 Bit I/O Disabled
Enabled
Enabling allows 32 bit IDE data transfers.
This field is informational only, for Type Auto.