INSTALLATION
9 System Hangs During Boot
If the system hangs during the boot process after installing the Maxtor hard drive – either before or after setting the system BIOS – the system many have a BIOS with a cylinder limitation. This may occur for hard drives that exceed 2.1 GB. If this happens,
do the following:
1Turn the system OFF.
2Install the cylinder limitation jumper (J46) on the drive. The figure below shows the Maxtor hard drive configured as a Master or Slave device with the cylinder limitation jumper installed.
IMPORTANT: When the Cylinder Limitation jumper (J46) is installed, the Maxtor hard drive must be prepared using MaxBlast installation software.
Rear View of Maxtor Hard Drive
Master, Slave and Cable Select Settings with Cylinder Limitation Enabled
3If the BIOS was set to AUTO DETECT, follow the instructions in Section 7 to prepare the hard drive using the MaxBlast installation software.
If other BIOS settings were used, access the system BIOS SETUP program and set the parameters to aUserDefinableType with 4,092 cylinders, 16 heads and 63 sectorspertrackfortheMaxtorharddrive.ThenfollowtheinstructionsforsettingtheBIOSinSection7thenSection8topreparetheharddrivewithMaxBlastsoftware.
How to Obtain MaxBlast Software
If a MaxBlast software installation diskette was not included with the hard drive, the MaxBlast software may be downloaded from Maxtor’s Internet home page at http://www.maxtor.com. MaxBlast must be downloaded to a hard drive.
The instructions for creating the MaxBlast bootable diskette are available for viewing and printing from the MaxBlast download page.
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