IBM ATA-3 manual Limitations, Detect, Type, Deskstar Hard Disk Drive User’s Guide

Correcting

BIOS

Limitations

and

Partitioning

Using

Disk

Manager

Your

BIOS

might

contain

limitations

that

can

cause operational

failures when you

install

one

of

the new

and

larger

hard

disk drives.

See

the

documentation that

comes

with

your

IBM

computer to

install

your

hard

disk

drive,

and

to

configure

your

system.

The following procedures contain steps

to

solve

most

known

BIOS

limitations

using

manual

overrides

and

the

Disk Manager

software.

Attention:

The

following

steps

do

not

apply

to

IBM

computers.

1. Access your configuration-setup information.

2. Select

the

drive number

for

the

new

drive

that

you

are

installing.

Based

on

BIOS

type,

number

of

IDE

controllers,

and

number

of

IDE

devices

in

your computer,

the

configuration-setup

program

displays

options

for

up

to

four

devices.

Normally

drives

1

and

2

are

connected

to

the

primary IDE

controller

and

drives

3

and

4

are

connected

to

the

secondary

IDE

controller.

If

you

have

two

IDE

controllers,

drives

1

and 3

are

the

master

devices

and

drives

2 and

4

are

the

slave

devices.

If

you

have

one

IDE

controller,

drive

1

is

the

master

device

and

drive

2

is

the

slave

device.

3. Based on your configuration,

at

least

one of the following options

(listed in order of preference)

is

available.

Do

one

of

the

following:

a.

Select

the Auto

Detect

configuration-setup

option

if

it

is

available.

If the correct disk capacity

is

shown,

exit,

save

the

configuration

setup,

and

go

to

“Using

Your

Operating

System

For

Partitioning.”

If the correct disk capacity

is not shown, continue with

“Partitioning

and

Formatting

Using

Disk Manager

.”

b.

Select

the

User

Definable

drive

type.

The

User

Definable

entry

for

BIOS

configuration

will

be

a

number

between

47

and 49. Enter 1024 for cylinders,

16

for

heads,

and

63

for

sectors.

Set

the

Landing

Zone

and

Write

Precomp

entries

to

zero.

When

the

partitioning

process

completes,

the

drive

capacity

is

shown

as

504

MB,

but you

can use

the

full

capacity of your drive. Save the

changes,

close

the

configuration-setup

program,

and

continue

with

“Partitioning

and

Formatting

Using

Disk Manager

.”

c.

Select

Drive

Type

1 .

The

value

displayed

for

the

type

1

drive

is 1

MB.

When

the

partitioning

process

completes,

the

drive

capacity

is

shown

as

10

MB,

but

you

can

use

the

full

capacity of your drive. Save the

changes,

close

the

configuration-setup

program,

and

continue

with

“Partitioning

and

Formatting

Using

Disk Manager

.”

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