Asus P5ND2 SE - Page 64

2-18 Chapter 2: BIOS setup
Capacity
Displays the auto-detected hard disk capacity. This item is not congurable.
Cylinder
Shows the number of the hard disk cylinders. This item is not congurable.
Head
Shows the number of the hard disk read/write heads. This item is not
congurable.
Sector
Shows the number of sectors per track. This item is not congurable.
PIO Mode [Auto]
Sets the PIO mode for the IDE device.
Conguration options: [Auto] [Mode 0] [Mode 1] [Mode 2] [Mode 3] [Mode 4]
UDMA Mode [Auto]
Disables or sets the UDMA mode. Conguration options: [Disable] [Auto]
Transfer Mode
Shows the Transfer mode. This item is not congurable.
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.