Primary & Secondary Master/Slave - Asus MES-VM User Manual

4. BIOS SETUP
4.3.1 Primary & Secondary Master/Slave
These fields are used to configure IDE devices. The arrow head icon indicates that this
field contains a sub-menu. Move the cursor to highlight the field representing the ap-
propriate channel you wish to setup and press the <Enter> key to enter the sub-menu.
NOTE: Before attempting to configure a hard disk drive, make sure you
have the configuration information supplied by the manufacturer of the
drive. Incorrect settings may cause your system to not recognize the in-
stalled hard disk. To allow the BIOS to detect the drive type automati-
cally, select [Auto].
Type [Auto]
Select [Auto] to automatically detect an IDE hard disk drive. If automatic
detection is successful, the correct values will be filled in for the remaining
fields on this sub-menu. If automatic detection fails, you hard disk drive
may be too old or too new. You can try updating your BIOS or enter the
IDE hard disk drive parameters manually. Other options are:
[None] - to disable IDE devices
NOTE: After the IDE hard disk drive information has been entered into BIOS,
new IDE hard disk drives must be partitioned (such as with FDISK) and then for-
matted before data can be read from and write on. Primary IDE hard disk drives
must have its partition set to active (also possible with FDISK).
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