Serial ATA Drive Guidelines and Features

4.3 SATA 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.

4.4 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

 

 

 

Maximum Size

File

Controller

 

 

 

 

 

 

System

Type

Operating System

Partition

Drive

 

 

 

 

 

FAT 32

ATA

Windows 2000/ XP

32 GB

128 PB

 

 

 

 

 

NTFS

ATA

Windows NT/2000/XP

2 TB

128 PB

 

 

 

 

 

4.5 SATA BIOS

Windows 2000, XP, and Linux

Enhanced Mode (default BIOS Setting) —Separate IDE controller

•SATA Controller1 in Legacy/Native Mode

-SATA 0 is accessible as Device 0 of SATA controller’s Primary Channel

-SATA 1 is accessible as Device 0 of SATA controller’s Secondary Channel

•SATA Controller 2 in Native Model

-SATA 2 is accessible as Device 1of SATA controller’s Primary Channel

-SATA 3 is accessible as Device 1 of SATA controller’s Secondary Channel

 

Service Reference Guide

431672-001

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