User manual ABIT SR7-8X

[. . . ] Copyright and Warranty Notice The information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on part of the vendor, who assumes no liability or responsibility for any errors that may appear in this manual. No warranty or representation, either expressed or implied, is made with respect to the quality, accuracy or fitness for any particular part of this document. In no event shall the manufacturer be liable for direct, indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages arising from any defect or error in this manual or product. Product names appearing in this manual are for identification purpose only and trademarks and product names or brand names appearing in this document are the property of their respective owners. [. . . ] The basic step in using a HDD is to run FDISK, and then FORMAT the drive. Most current HDDs have already been subjected to low-level format at the factory, so you can probably skip this operation. Remember though, the primary IDE HDD must have its partition set to active within the FDISK procedure. * If you are using an old HDD that is already formatted, auto detection can't detect the correct parameters. You may need to do a low-level format or set the parameters manually, and then check if the HDD is working. Such as: IDE ZIP, IDE LS120, etc. SR7-8X Introducing the BIOS 4-9 Cylinders: When disks are placed directly above one another along the shaft, the circular vertical "slice" consisting of all the tracks located in a particular position is called a cylinder. The minimum number you can enter is 0, the maximum number you can enter is 65535. Heads: This is the tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to create and read back the magnetic patterns on the disk (also called the read/write head). The minimum number you can enter is 0, the maximum number you can enter is 255. Write Precompensation: The minimum number you can enter is 0, the maximum number you can enter is 65535. Sectors: The minimum segment of track length that can be assigned to stored data. Sectors usually are grouped into blocks or logical blocks that function as the smallest units of data permit. The minimum number you can enter is 0, the maximum number you can enter is 255. Maximum Capacity: This item will show the maximum capacity of your storage device. LBA (Logical Block Addressing) mode: Two options are available: Off ( On. You can select Auto for a hard disk > 512 MB under DOS and Windows environment. The earlier LBA mode can support HDD capacities of up to 8. 4GB, and this mode uses a different method to calculate the position of disk data to be accessed. It translates Cylinders (CYLS), Heads and Sectors into a logical address where data is located. The Cylinders, Heads, and Sectors displayed in this menu do not reflect the actual structure of the hard disk, they are just reference values used to calculate actual positions. Currently, all high capacity hard disks support this mode, that's why we recommend you use this mode. Currently, the BIOS can support the INT 13h extension function, enabling the LBA mode to support hard disk drive capacities exceeding 128 GB. Block mode is also called block transfer, multiple commands, or multiple sector read/write. [. . . ] Your ABIT authorized distributor should be able to provide the fastest solution to your technical problem. We sell our products through distributors who sell to resellers and stores. Your reseller should be very familiar with your system configuration and should be able to solve your problem much more efficiently than we could. After all, your reseller regards you as an important User's Manual I-2 Appendix I customer who may purchase more products and who can urge your friends to buy from him or her as well. [. . . ]