Specifications

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is generally already set up properly. When connecting four drives, jumper a master and a slave for
each cable.
Once you have set the system’s configuration memory, the IDE drive(s) can be formatted and otherwise
prepared normally. Refer to your operating system and disk drive documentation for specific procedures
and requirements.
3.4.2 Floppy Drives
The ROM BIOS supports all of the popular DOS-compatible floppy disk formats. This includes all the
5-1/4 inch and 3-1/2 inch floppy formats—360K, 720K, 1.2M, and 1.44M. (Note that some formats are
not supported by early versions of DOS.) In addition, the ROM BIOS supports dual capacity use of high
density floppy drives. That is, you can read and boot from 360K floppies in a 1.2M 5-1/4 inch drive, and
from 720K floppies in a 1.44M 3-1/2 inch drive.
Drive Parameter Setup
Enter the number and type of floppy drives in the system. If the drives connected to the system do not
match the parameters in the configuration memory, POST displays an error message. To eliminate the
error message, set the drive parameters to match your floppy drives.
3.4.3 Video
Specify the initial video mode. Select Mono, CGA40, CGA80, or EGA/VGA. If your video display card
is VGA, super VGA, or any other high resolution standard, specify EGA/VGA no matter how it is
configured to come up.
3.4.4 Error Halt
Select which kinds of errors will halt the Power-On Self Test (POST). If you plan to use the module
without a keyboard, be sure to set this option to not halt on keyboard error.
3.4.5 DRAM Memory
The ROM BIOS automatically detects the amount of memory during POST and stores the result when
you save the configuration values when exiting SETUP. This SETUP page displays the amount of
memory found in the system.