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Manually detecting an IDE drive
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Manually detecting an IDE drive If you wish to manually enter the drive information, set the Primary IDE Master item to [Manual], and the Access Mode item to [CHS]. Primary Master Primary IDE Master Access Mode Capacity Cylinder Head Precomp Landing Zone Sector PIO Mode UDMA Mode Transfer Mode S.M.A.R.T. Status [Manual] [CHS] 0 MB 0 0 0 0 0 [Auto] [Auto] None None Select Menu Item Specific Help Selects the type of fixed disk connected to the system. [Manual] lets you select the number of cylinders, heads, etc. Note: PRECOMP=65535 means NONE. Before attempting to manually configure an IDE drive, make sure that you have the correct configuration information supplied by the drive manufacturer. Incorrect settings may cause the system to fail to recognize the installed IDE drive! To manually enter the number of cylinder, head, precomp, landing zone, and sector per track for the drive, highlight an item, key-in the value that you obtained from the drive documentation, then press . Refer to the drive documentation or the drive label for this information. To enter a value, you may also highlight the item, then press to display a pop-up menu. Type in the value from the drive documentation, then press . Capacity [xxxxx MB] Displays the auto-detected hard disk capacity. The value is not userconfigurable. Cylinder Shows the number of the hard disk cylinders. Head Shows the number of the hard disk read/write heads. 5-14 Chapter 5: BIOS setup