Before attempting to configure a hard disk drive, make sure you have the correct configuration information supplied by the drive manufacturer. Incorrect settings may cause the system to fail to recognize the installed hard disk.

Capacity [xxxxx MB]

This item displays the auto-detected hard disk capacity. The value is not user-configurable.

Cylinder

This item shows the number of the hard disk cylinders.

Head

This item shows the number of the hard disk read/write heads.

Precomp

This item shows the precomp.

Landing Zone

This item shows the landing zone.

Sector

This item shows the number of sectors per track.

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.

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Chapter 2: BIOS information