ASUS me99 Manuale Utente

4.  BIOS SETUP

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, your 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:

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 rep-
resenting the appropriate channel you wish to setup and press the <Enter> key
to enter the sub-menu.

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].

 Master/Slave Drives

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).