Asus P/I-P55SP3AV - Manual (Page 32)

Software Guide
The are four hard disks listed "Primary Master", "Primary Slave"
"Secondary Master" and "Secondary Slave". For each IDE channel,
the first device is the 'master' and the second device the 'slave'.
To enter the specifications for an MFM or ESDI hard disk drive,
you must first select a 'type'. You can select the "User" option and
enter the specifications yourself manually or there are 45 pre-defined
drive specifications which you can look through to see if the specifi­
cations for your drive are assigned a type number. Do this by using
the or key to change the option listed af­
ter the drive letter.
For an IDE hard drive, you should set the entry to "Auto" and
the BIOS will automatically detect all drive information needed. You
can use the IDE HDD Auto Detection utility described later to super­
vise the auto-detection process. If you want to do this, leave the drive
set to "None". You can also enter specifications manually by using
the "User" option.
There are six categories of information you must enter: "Cyls"
(number of cylinders), "Heads" (number of read/write heads),
"Precomp" (write precompensation), "LandZ" (landing zone), "Sec­
tor" (number of sectors) and "Mode". The "Size" entry is automati­
cally determined by the other specifications. Your hard disk vendor's
or system manufacturer's documentation should provide you with
the drive specifications. If you have an IDE drive, unless your drive
is already formatted with specifications different from those auto-
detected, the easiest thing to do is use the "Auto" setting to auto-
detect the drive specifications.
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