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Chapter 2: BIOS setup

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.

2.3.7

HDD SMART Monitoring [Disabled]

Allows you to enable or disable the HDD Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting

Technology (SMART) feature. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]

2.3.8

Installed Memory [xxx MB]

Shows the size of installed memory.

2.3.9

Usable Memory [XXX MB]

Shows the size of usable memory.

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. Ensure to set

the partition of the Primary IDE hard disk drives to active.