Sata Smart Drives; Drive Capacities; Sata Bios - HP COMPAQ DX2710 MT Service & Reference Manual

4.3 SATA SMART Drives

The Self Monitoring Analysis and Recording Technology (SMART) ATA drives for the HP
Personal Computers have built-in drive failure prediction that warns the user or network
administrator of an impending failure or crash of the hard drive. The SMART drive tracks fault
prediction and failure indication parameters such as reallocated sector count, spin retry count,
and calibration retry count. If the drive determines that a failure is imminent, it generates a fault
alert.

4.4 Drive Capacities

The combination of the file system and the operating system used in the computer determines the
maximum usable size of a drive partition. A drive partition is the largest segment of a drive that
may be properly accessed by the operating system. A single hard drive may therefore be
subdivided into a number of unique drive partitions in order to make use of all of its space.
Because of the differences in the way that drive sizes are calculated, the size reported by the
operating system may differ from that marked on the hard drive or listed in the computer
specification. Drive size calculations by drive manufacturers are bytes to the base 10 while
calculations by Microsoft are bytes to the base 2.
File
System
FAT 32 ATA
NTFS ATA

4.5 SATA BIOS

• SATA Controller1 in Legacy/Native Mode
- SATA 0 is accessible as Device 0 of SATA controller's Primary Channel
- SATA 1 is accessible as Device 0 of SATA controller's Secondary Channel
• SATA Controller 2 in Native Model
- SATA 2 is accessible as Device 1of SATA controller's Primary Channel
- SATA 3 is accessible as Device 1 of SATA controller's Secondary Channel
Service Reference Guide
Drive/Partition Capacity Limits
Controller
Type
Windows 2000/XP/Vista
Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista
Windows 2000, XP, Vista, and Linux
483941-001
Serial ATA Drive Guidelines and Features
Operating System
Maximum Size
Partition Drive
32 GB 128 PB
2 TB 128 PB
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