Acer Altos 11000 System User Manual page 70

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You may do any of the following:
Select the type that corresponds to your IDE hard disk drive.
If you do not know the exact type of your IDE device, select
the
option to let the BIOS utility automatically detect
Auto
the installed IDE drive type.
You may save the values under the option
time you boot the system, the BIOS utility does not have to
auto-configure your IDE drive as it detects the saved disk
information during POST (Power-On Self Test).
We recommend that you copy the IDE disk
drive values and keep them in a safe place in
case you have to reconfigure the disk in the
future.
If you have installed an IDE hard disk that was previously
formatted but does not use the disk native parameters or
structure, i.e., the disk may be formatted according to the
user-specified number of cylinders, heads, and sectors,
select the
User
information.
If there is no device connected, choose
To configure an IDE device designated as slave:
1.
Select the IDE Primary Channel option to display its
2.
Highlight the parameter Type, then press
IDE drive types with their respective values for cylinder, head,
sector, and size. Refer to the above procedure for configuring a
master
device.Follow step 2 of the procedure when configuring a
master device.
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option. Then enter the appropriate drive
None
or
. The next
User
.
menu
menu.
to display the
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