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Extended BIOS Translation for DOS Drives >1 GByte

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4 Troubleshooting Your PC and Using the Setup Program Using the HP Setup Program • Support Removable Disks Under BIOS as Fixed Disks When Boot Only is selected, only the removable media drive designated as the boot device is treated as a hard disk drive. If All Disks is selected, all removable-media drives supported by the BIOS are treated as hard disk drives. No removable-media drives are treated as hard disk drives when Disabled is selected. • Extended BIOS Translation for DOS Drives >1 GByte This option is enabled by default with the following translation schemes: Ì SCSI hard disks ≤ 1 GByte use a translation scheme of 64 heads, 32 sectors per track Ì SCSI hard disks > 1 GByte use a translation scheme of 255 heads, 63 sectors per track. • Display Message During BIOS Initialization When enabled, this option displays the message Press for SCSISelect Utility during BIOS initialization. When disabled, this message is not displayed, although you can still press for the SCSISelect utility. This option is enabled by default. • Multiple Lun Support More advanced SCSI drives can have several logical units. This option lets you enable and disable support for SCSI devices with multiple logical units. It is disabled by default. • BIOS Support for More Than 2 Drives This option is only available if the interface BIOS is enabled. It lets you enable or disable BIOS support for between two to eight SCSI hard disk drives. This feature is supported by DOS 5.0 and above. English 105

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4
Troubleshooting Your PC and Using the Setup Program
Using the HP Setup Program
•
Support Removable Disks Under BIOS as Fixed Disks
When
Boot Only
is selected, only the removable media drive
designated as the boot device is treated as a hard disk drive.
If
All Disks
is selected, all removable-media drives supported by
the BIOS are treated as hard disk drives.
No removable-media drives are treated as hard disk drives when
Disabled
is selected.
•
Extended BIOS Translation for DOS Drives >1 GByte
This option is enabled by default with the following translation
schemes:
SCSI hard disks
≤
1 GByte use a translation scheme of 64 heads,
32 sectors per track
SCSI hard disks > 1 GByte use a translation scheme of 255 heads,
63 sectors per track.
•
Display <F6> Message During BIOS Initialization
When enabled, this option displays the message
Press <F6> for
SCSISelect Utility
during BIOS initialization. When disabled,
this message is not displayed, although you can still press
for the
SCSISelect utility. This option is enabled by default.
•
Multiple Lun Support
More advanced SCSI drives can have several logical units. This
option lets you enable and disable support for SCSI devices with
multiple logical units. It is disabled by default.
•
BIOS Support for More Than 2 Drives
This option is only available if the interface BIOS is enabled. It lets
you enable or disable BIOS support for between two to eight SCSI
hard disk drives. This feature is supported by DOS 5.0 and above.