Asus P I-P55SP3AV P/I-P55SP3AV User's manual - Page 32

Software Guide The are four hard disks listed "Primary Master", "Primary Slave" "Secondary Master" and "Secondary Slave". For each IDE channel, the first device is the 'master' and the second device the 'slave'. To enter the specifications for an MFM or ESDI hard disk drive, you must first select a 'type'. You can select the "User" option and enter the specifications yourself manually or there are 45 pre-defined drive specifications which you can look through to see if the specifications for your drive are assigned a type number. Do this by using the or key to change the option listed after the drive letter. For an IDE hard drive, you should set the entry to "Auto" and the BIOS will automatically detect all drive information needed. You can use the IDE HDD Auto Detection utility described later to supervise the auto-detection process. If you want to do this, leave the drive set to "None". You can also enter specifications manually by using the "User" option. There are six categories of information you must enter: "Cyls" (number of cylinders), "Heads" (number of read/write heads), "Precomp" (write precompensation), "LandZ" (landing zone), "Sector" (number of sectors) and "Mode". The "Size" entry is automatically determined by the other specifications. Your hard disk vendor's or system manufacturer's documentation should provide you with the drive specifications. If you have an IDE drive, unless your drive is already formatted with specifications different from those autodetected, the easiest thing to do is use the "Auto" setting to autodetect the drive specifications. • OOOOO • • OOOOO 3- 5