Specifications

Getting Started

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and I/O paged access

modes to the RFA.

RFA Data Access

Mode

This option is used to

select between byte

and word data access.

Large Disk Access

Mode

If you use a drive larger than 528 MB and you run DOS,

set the Large Disk Access Mode to ‘DOS.’ This is the

default setting. If you use a different operating system, set

it to ‘Other.’ The ‘DOS’ setting causes the system BIOS to

store in its two hard disk tables (located in the extended

BIOS data area) the number of cylinders divided by two

and the number of heads multiplied by two (if the drive is

configured in setup to have more than 1024 cylinders).

This allows MS-DOS systems to use hard disks of up to 8