Asus Terminator K7 - Manual (Page 84)

84 Chapter 5: BIOS Information
5.4.1 Primary & Secondary Master/Slave
NOTE: Before attempting to configure a hard disk drive, make sure
you have the configuration information supplied by the manufac-
turer of the drive. Incorrect settings may cause your system to fail
to recognize the installed hard disk. To allow the BIOS to detect
the drive type automatically, select [Auto].
Type [Auto]
Select [Auto] to automatically detect an IDE hard disk drive. If auto-
matic detection is successful, the correct values will be filled in for
the remaining fields on this sub-menu. If automatic detection fails,
your hard disk drive may be too old or too new. You can try updating
your BIOS or enter the IDE hard disk drive parameters manually.
NOTE: After the IDE hard disk drive information has been entered
into BIOS, new IDE hard disk drives must be partitioned (such as
with FDISK) and then formatted before data can be read from and
write on. Primary IDE hard disk drives must have its partition set to
active (also possible with FDISK).
Other options for the Type field are:
[None] - to disable IDE devices