Maccroche wrote:
> 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


Latest beta bios, then there is no upgrade to get the 48-bit lba you
need for your drive. Therefor, get a promise hdd controller.

http://www.promise.com/product/produ...&product_id=87

FWIW, XP with Sp2 does not seem to care about the bios limits.

>
> 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