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Old 11-25-2006, 11:22 PM
Maccroche
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Default New hitachi Deskstar on old AMIBIOS v 1.18 for an ASUS K7M mainboard: setup?

Hello, I have a new hard disk 250 GB hitachi Deskstar T7K250:
HDT722525DLAT80 250.06 GB
on an old AMIBIOS v 1.18 for an ASUS K7M mainboard

How to set up this new hard disk?
I need to set up it in the BIOS providing the following info:
Cylinders (max value accepted: 65535)
Heads (max value accepted: 255 )
Write precomp
Sectors (max value accepted: 255)
The maximun capacity is calculated automatically.

But it is not possible to enter the values given by Hitachi: see
below...

The question is: what are the values to enter to define an "user"
configuration???
Using the function "auto" in the BIOS, only 128 GB are recognized...

PS: the bios version is the folowing
ftp://dlsvr02.asus.com/pub/ASUS/beta/mb/bios/km132.zip

The Hitachi documentation d7k250P_spv1.8.pdf gives the following data:
Sectors per track: 630-1296
Data sectors per cylinder: 2520-5184
Logical layout
Number of heads: 16
Number of Sectors per track: 63
number of cylinders: 16,383
Number of sectors: 488,397,168

Total logical data bytes: 250,059,350,016


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