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Appendix A Hard disks and BIOS setup

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starts with the hard disk that would be the third in usual circumstances (it is usually
the secondary master).

After you have installed the hard disk in your computer and have configured it in
BIOS, one can say that the PC (or the motherboard) «knows» about its existence
and its main parameters. However, it is still not enough for an operating system to
work with the hard disk.

A.2.4 AwardBIOS

Below, we provide an example of configuring hard disks in AwardBIOS.

The Main AwardBIOS menu, which is responsible for configuring hard disks on
motherboards for Celeron, Pentium II, III, IV and AMD Athlon, Duron and Sempron
processors usually looks like this:

AwardBIOS Setup Utility

Main Advanced Power Boot

Exit

System Time

[16:16:35]

Item Specific Help:

System Date

[01/10/2001]

Legacy Diskette A

[1.44M, 3.5in]

to go to sub-

Legacy Diskette B

[None]

menu.

Floppy 3 Mode Support [Disabled]

Primary Master

[Auto]

Primary Slave

[Auto]

Secondary Master

[Auto]

Secondary Slave

[Auto]

Language [English]

Supervisor Password

[Disabled]

User Password

[Disabled]

Halt On

[All but Disk/Keyboard]

Installed Memory

[Disabled]

F1 Help

Select Item -/+

Change Values

F5 Setup Defaults

Esc Exit

←→ Select Menu Enter Select Sub-Menu F10 Save and Exit

Place the marker on the Primary Master line and press the Enter key to get to the
screen that looks like this:

AwardBIOS Setup Utility

Main

Primary Master [Auto]

Item Specific Help:

Type

[Auto]

to select the type

of the IDE drive.

[User Type HDD] allows

you to set each entry on

your

own.