User manual TYAN THUNDER N3600R

[. . . ] Thunder n3600R /// Version 1. 0 S2912 Copyright Copyright © TYAN Computer Corporation, 2006. No part of this manual may be reproduced or translated without prior written consent from TYAN Computer Corp. Trademark All registered and unregistered trademarks and company names contained in this manual are property of their respective owners including, but not limited to the following. TYAN, Taro and Thunder n3600R are trademarks of TYAN Computer Corporation. AMD, Opteron, and combinations thereof are trademarks of AMD Corporation. [. . . ] In order for LBA to work, it must be supported by the BIOS and operating system, but since it is also a new way of talking to the hard disk, the disk must support it as well. All newer hard disks do in fact support LBA, and when auto detected by a BIOS supporting LBA, will be set up to use that mode. When LBA is turned on, the BIOS will enable geometry translation. This translation may be done in the same way that it is done in Extended CHS or large mode, or it 51 http://www. tyan. com may be done using a different algorithm called LBA-assist translation. The translated geometry is still what is presented to the operating system for use in Int 13h calls. The difference between LBA and ECHS is that when using ECHS the BIOS translates the param eters used by these calls from the translated geometry to the drive's logical geometry. With LBA, it translates from the translated geometry directly into a logical block (sector) number. LBA has in recent years become the dominant form of hard disk addressing. Since the 8. 4 GB limit of the Int13h interface was reached, it became impossible to express the geometry of large hard disks using cylinder, head and sector numbers, translated or not, while remaining below the Int13h limits of 1, 024 cylinders, 256 heads and 63 sectors. Therefore, modern drives are no longer specified in terms of classical geometry, but rather in terms of their total number of user data sectors and addressed using LBA. Options: Disabled / Enabled 32 Bit I/O Enables or disables 32 bit data transfer mode. Enabling this option causes the PCI hard disk interface controller to bundle together two 16-bit chunks of data from the drive into a 32-bit group, which is then transmitted to the processor or memory. This results in a small performance increase. Options: Enabled / Disabled Transfer Mode These modes determine the speed at which data is transferred to and from the drive. The Auto option automatically determines the correct transfer rates. Options: Auto / Standard / Fast PIO 1 / Fast PIO 2 / Fast PIO 3 / Fast PIO 4 / FPIO 3 / DMA 1 / FPIO 4 / DMA 2 Ultra DMA Mode Enables or disables Ultra DMA Mode. Ultra DMA (UDMA, or, more accurately, Ultra DMA/33) is a protocol for transferring data between a hard disk drive through the computer's data paths (or bus) to the computer's random access memory (RAM). The Ultra DMA/33 protocol transfers data in burst mode at a rate of 33. 3 MBps (megabytes per second), twice as fast as the previous Direct Memory Access (DMA) interface. Ultra DMA support in your computer means that it will boot (start) and open new applications more quickly. It will also help users of graphics -intensive and other applications that require large amounts of access to data on the hard drive. Ultra DMA uses Cyclical Redundancy Checking (CRC), offering a new level of data protection. Because the Ultra DMA protocol is designed to work with legacy application PIO and DMA protocols, it can be added to many existing computers by installing an Ultra DMA/33 Peripheral Component Interconnect adapter card. [. . . ] Tyan also ranks high for its commitment to fast and friendly customer support through email. By offering plenty of options for users, Tyan serves multiple market segments with the industry's most competitive services to support them. "Tyan's tech support is some of the most impressive we've seen, with great response time and exceptional organization in general" Anandtech. com Please feel free to contact us directly for this service at techsupport@tyan. com Help Resources: 1. See the beep codes section of this manual. [. . . ]