P4B266 - what BIOS settings for HD?

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I have 2 Maxtor 60 GB. drives (type 6L060J30 attached to prim. port (master
& slave) of my Asus P4b266.
In BIOS until now I used auto detect and the settings seem to be:

cyl. 1024, head 255, sec. 63, multisector trans. max., SMART disabled, PIO
4, UDMA 5

This is very different from what the drive manual says:

cyl. 16383, head 16, sec. 63

If I make these settings manually, Win2k won't boot anymore.

Who's right? Maxtor? Asus? Windows???


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os: Windows 2000 Pro SP4 - mobo: Asus P4B266 - cpu: Intel P4 1,6 GHz. - mem:
512 MB. - video: Matrox Marvel G450eTV 32 MB. (AGP) - monitor: iiyama Vision
Master 1401 - sound: SB Audigy 1394 (PCI) - hd: 2 X Maxtor 60 GB. -
DVD/CD-ROM: Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-M1712 - DVD+RW/+R: AOpen DVRW2412Pro -
modems: ADSL: Alcatel speedtouch 330 (USB) - analog: Dynalink Lucent Win
Modem 56k6 (PCI) - printers: HP DeskJet 720C (parallel) & HP LaserJet IIP
Plus (parallel) - keyb: PS/2 MS Internet Keyboard - mouse: Logitech Pilot
Wheel Mouse Optical (USB) - webcam: Logitech QuickCam Zoom (USB) -
removables: Iomega ZipDrive 100 (parallel) - Seagate 20 GB (USB)
 
Linea Recta said:
I have 2 Maxtor 60 GB. drives (type 6L060J30 attached to prim. port (master
& slave) of my Asus P4b266.
In BIOS until now I used auto detect and the settings seem to be:

cyl. 1024, head 255, sec. 63, multisector trans. max., SMART disabled, PIO
4, UDMA 5

This is very different from what the drive manual says:

cyl. 16383, head 16, sec. 63

If I make these settings manually, Win2k won't boot anymore.

Who's right? Maxtor? Asus? Windows???
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Leave them on auto and you should be fine.

Sick Willie
 
Those cylinder/head/sector settings (when autodetected) will be ignored
because they're not valid for a drive over 8.4GB, it has to be addressed
using LBA. If you manually set the CHS values, the BIOS will think you
really do have an 8.4GB drive and screw up the disk geometry.
 
Thanks for your reply. At least now I understand better.


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