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Bios setting of HDD Max?
Name: ArcticWolf Date: January 15, 2006 at 01:57:21 Pacific OS: Win98se CPU/Ram: P II 300/128megs SDRam
Comment:
In My Bios I have an option of IDE HDD Block Mode Sectors .... now I believe the seetings are 4,8,16,32 & HDD Max. Can anyone tell Me the didentions please and what setting I shoulld use. I have a Samung 3.4gig hard drive ATA33
Overclocked ASUS-P2L97 75FSB x 4.5CPU=337mhz Case Temp 26c Win98se 96megs SDRam
Name: ArcticWolf Date: January 15, 2006 at 15:02:41 Pacific
Reply:
Wow I must of been tired when I wrote my post, what I meant to say is (definition) and not didentions ... sorry to confuse you all. Can anyone tell Me what they all mean.
Overclocked ASUS-P2L97 75FSB x 4.5CPU=337mhz Case Temp 26c Win98se 96megs SDRam
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Response Number 4
Name: DAVEINCAPS Date: January 15, 2006 at 22:51:37 Pacific
Reply:
It has to do with the number of sectors that can be transferred with a single request. As Dan says, Max is usually OK.
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Response Number 5
Name: Giro Timussi (by aaabbb) Date: January 23, 2006 at 15:12:29 Pacific
Reply:
use autodetect, your drive will be detected. There are problems with hard-drives more 8Gb.
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