Asus M2A690G HDD Smart Monitoring Disabled, Installed Memory xxx MB, Usable Memory XXX MB

Head

Shows the number of the hard disk read/write heads. This item is not configurable.

Landing Zone

Shows the number of landing zone per track. This item is not configurable.

Sector

Shows the number of sectors per track. This item is not configurable.

After entering the IDE hard disk drive information into BIOS, use a disk utility, such as FDISK, to partition and format new IDE hard disk drives. This is necessary so that you can write or read data from the hard disk. Make sure to set the partition of the Primary IDE hard disk drives to active.

5.3.6 HDD SMART Monitoring [Disabled]

Allows you to enable or disable the HDD Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) feature.

Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]

5.3.7 Installed Memory [xxx MB]

Shows the size of installed memory.

5.3.8 Usable Memory [XXX MB]

Shows the size of usable memory.

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