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Manual hdd type selection, Cylinder, Head – Asus AP1720-E1 User Manual

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Manual HDD type selection

If you wish to manually enter the hard disk information, set the IDE
Primary Master item to [Manual], and the Access Mode item to [CHS]. 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 Enter. Refer to the drive
documentation or the drive label for this information.

To enter a value, you may also highlight the item, then press Enter to
display a pop-up menu. Type in the value from the drive documentation,
then press Enter.

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.

Primary Master

Auto-Detection

[Press Enter]

IDE Primary Master

[Manual]

Access Mode

[CHS]

Capacity

40020 MB

Cylinder

[19158]

Head

[ 16]

Precomp

[ 0]

Landing Zone

[19157]

Sector

[ 255]

To auto-detect the
HDD’s size, head...on
this channel.

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.