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ASUS P4GE-MX motherboard
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Primary and Secondary Master/Slave
IDE Auto-Detection [Press Enter]
Press enter to automatically detect an IDE hard disk drive, if the hard drive is not
already detected. In cases of undetected HDDs, pressing enter detects the HDD
and allows you access to the IDE Primary Master and Access Mode fields.
IDE Primary Master/Slave [Auto]; IDE Secondary Master/Slave [Auto]
Select [Auto] to automatically detect an IDE hard disk drive. If automatic detection is
successful, the setup BIOS automatically fills in the correct values for the remaining fields
on this sub-menu. If automatic detection fails, this may be because the hard disk drive is
too old or too new. If the hard disk was already formatted on a previous system, the setup
BIOS may detect incorrect parameters. In these cases, select [Manual] to manually enter
the IDE hard disk drive parameters. If no drive is installed or if you are removing a drive
and not replacing it, select [None]. Configuration options: [None] [Auto] [Manual]
Access Mode [Auto]
The default [Auto] allows automatic detection of an IDE hard disk drive. Select
[CHS] for this item if you set the IDE Channel 0/1 Master/Slave to [Manual] to enter
the Hard Disk Drive values manually.
Configuration options: [CHS] [LBA] [Large] [Auto]
Manual HDD type selection
If you wish to manually enter the hard disk information, set the IDE Primary Master
item to [Manual], and the Access Mode item to [CHS]. To manually enter the
number of cylinder, head, and sector per track for the drive, highlight an item, key-
in the value that you obtained from the drive documentation then press <Enter>.
Refer to the drive documentation or the drive label for this information.
To enter a value, you may also highlight the item, then press <Enter> to display a
pop-up menu. Type in the value from the drive documentation, then press <Enter>.