American Megatrends MAN-758 manual Standard Setup, Continued, Parameter, Description

Standard Setup, Continued

Entering Drive Parameters You can also enter the hard disk drive parameters. The drive parameters are:

Parameter		Description
	Type	The number for a drive with certain identification
		parameters.
Cylinders		The number of cylinders in the disk drive.
	Heads	The number of heads.
	Write	The actual physical size of a sector gets
Precompensatio		progressively smaller as the track diameter
	n	diminishes. Yet each sector must still hold 512
		bytes. Write precompensation circuitry on the
		hard disk compensates for the physical difference
		in sector size by boosting the write current for
		sectors on inner tracks. This parameter is the
		track number on the disk surface where write
		precompensation begins.
Landing Zone		This number is the cylinder location where the
		heads normally park when the system is shut
		down.
	Sectors	The number of sectors per track. MFM drives
		have 17 sectors per track. RLL drives have 26
		sectors per track. ESDI drives have 34 sectors per
		track. SCSI and IDE drives have even more
		sectors per track.
	Capacity	The formatted capacity of the drive is the number
		of heads times the number of cylinders times the
		number of sectors per track times 512 (bytes per
		sector).

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