Rioworks PURCA User Manual - Note
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* IDE drives do not require setting Landing Zone and Write Precomp.
When you enter Setup, the Main Menu usually displays the results of
Autotyping– information each drive provides about its own parameters (e.g.,
cylinders, heads, and sectors)–and how the drives are arranged as Masters or
Slaves on your machine.
Some older drives, however, do not use Autotyping and require selecting type
User and entering a pre-defined fixed-disk type value or specifying the drive
parameters separately with the User type selected. You can find the correct
parameters for hard-disk drives in the drive manual or written on the casing of
the drive itself.
Note
Before changing the contents of this menu, write them down.
Once you have established correct parameters for your drive,
write them down and store them in a safe place (e.g., tape them to
the disk drive) for use in case these values are lost in CMOS or if
autotyping fails. If these hard-disk parameters are not correctly
entered in CMOS, you cannot access the data on your drive.
WARNING
Incorrect settings can cause your system to malfunction. To correct mistakes,
return to Setup and restore the Setup Defaults with
correct drive parameters.
BIOS Setup