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MSI MS-6566 User Manual

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AMI BIOS Setup

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Pri Master/Pri Slave/Sec Master/Sec Slave
Press PgUp/<+> or PgDn/<-> to select the hard disk drive type. The specifica-
tion of hard disk drive will show up on the right hand according to your selection.

TYPE

Type of the device.

SIZE

Capacity of the device.

CYLS

Number of cylinders.

HEAD

Number of heads.

PRECOMP

Write precompensation.

LANDZ

Cylinder location of Landing zone.

SECTOR

Number of sectors.

MODE

Acc ess mo de.

Floppy Drive A:/B:
This item allows you to set the type of floppy drives installed. Available options:
Not Installed, 360 K B 5¼, 1.2 M B 5¼, 720 KB 3½, 1.44 M B 3½ and 2.88 MB
3 ½
.

Boot Sector Virus Protection
The i tem is to set the Virus Warn ing feat ure for IDE Hard Di sk boot sector
protection. When Enabled, BIOS will issue a virus warning message and beep
if a write to the boot se ctor or the pa rtitio n table of the HDD is attemp ted.
Setting options: Disabled and Enabled.

Note: Thi s feat ure on ly pro tects the boo t sect or, no t the whole hard

disk.