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Asus P4U800-X User Manual

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Chapter 2: BIOS information

Sector

This item shows the number of sectors per track.

Transfer Mode

This item shows the Transfer mode. This item is not configurable.

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.