Dcycripz/fj/i of disk parameters, Using auto detect hard dhh {onty for ide drives), Iv. bios setup – Asus P/I-P6RP4 User Manual

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IV. BIOS SETUP

DcycripZ/fj/i of Disk Parameters

T\|H‘ The number for a drive vviih tertair identi Heat ion parameters

I {Cylindc rs) The TLimber of cylinders in the disk drive

f Heads) The jiLtnber of heads

WP (Write Precompensation) The size of a sector gets progressively

smaller as the track diameter dimimshes. Yet each sector stilt holds ii 12
bytes. Wnte precompensation eircuttry on the hard disk compensates for

the physical difiiirente in sector size by boosting the write current for scc-
lore

iniicr tracks. This parameter

¡3

(he track number where write pre

compensation begins.

LZ (l..andingZone) This number is the cylinder location where the heads

will nofmally park when the system is shut down.

Sec (Sectors) The number of secfors peMrack. MFM drives have 17

sectors per track. RLL drives have 26 sectors per track. ESHI drives have

sectors pir track. SCSI and lilt! drives may have even more sectors per

track.

Size The formatted capacity of the drive ii (Number of Heads} .i; (Num

ber of Cylinders) X (Number of Sectors per Track) x (5 I2 bytes per Sector)

Using auto detect hard dhh {onty for IDE drives)

If yon select IDE Setup ffom the Utility section of die BIOS Setup main

menu, the BIOS automatically finds all die IDE hard disk parameters set up
alJ the paramerers for the IDE hard drives instaJled in your system.