HP D530 HP Compaq Business Desktop d500 Service Reference Guide, 5th Edition - Page 61
PATA SMART Drives, 4.5 Drive Capacities, 4.6 SATA BIOS, Drive/Partition Capacity Limits
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Serial and Parallel ATA Drive Guidelines and Features 4.4 PATA SMART Drives The Self Monitoring Analysis and Recording Technology (SMART) ATA drives for the HP Personal Computers have built-in drive failure prediction that warns the user or network administrator of an impending failure or crash of the hard drive. The SMART drive tracks fault prediction and failure indication parameters such as reallocated sector count, spin retry count, and calibration retry count. If the drive determines that a failure is imminent, it generates a fault alert. 4.5 Drive Capacities The combination of the file system and the operating system used in the computer determines the maximum usable size of a drive partition. A drive partition is the largest segment of a drive that may be properly accessed by the operating system. A single hard drive may therefore be subdivided into a number of unique drive partitions in order to make use of all of its space. Because of the differences in the way that drive sizes are calculated, the size reported by the operating system may differ from that marked on the hard drive or listed in the computer specification. Drive size calculations by drive manufacturers are bytes to the base 10 while calculations by Microsoft are bytes to the base 2. Drive/Partition Capacity Limits File System FAT 32 FAT 32 NTFS NTFS Controller Type ATA SCSI ATA SCSI Operating System Windows 2000/ XP Windows 2000/ XP Windows NT/2000/XP Windows NT/2000/XP Maximum Size Partition 32 GB 32 GB 2 TB 2 TB Drive 128 PB 2 TB 128 PB 2 TB 4.6 SATA BIOS Windows 2000 and XP Enhanced Mode (default BIOS Setting) -Add as a separate controller • PATA in Legacy Mode • SATA in Native Mode Windows 9x, NT, and Linux Compatibility Mode (non-default BIOS Setting) -Replace primary IDE controller • PATA in Legacy Mode • SATA in Legacy Mode Service Reference Guide, d500 336492-005 4-9