Correcting | BIOS |
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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. |
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The following procedures contain steps | to | solve | most | known | BIOS | |||||||||
limitations | using |
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Attention: | The | following | steps | do | not | apply | to | IBM | computers. | |||||
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1. Access your
2. Select | the | drive number | for | the | new | drive | that | you | are | installing. | |||||||
Based | on | BIOS |
| type, | number | of | IDE | controllers, |
| and | number |
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of | IDE |
| devices | in | your computer, | the |
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program | displays |
| options | for | up | to |
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Normally |
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| 1 | and | 2 | are | connected | to | the | primary IDE |
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controller | and | drives | 3 | and | 4 | are |
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IDE | controller. |
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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. |
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3. Based on your configuration, | at | least | one of the following options | |||||||||||||||||
(listed in order of preference) | is | available. | Do | one | of | the |
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a. | Select | the Auto | Detect |
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| If the correct disk capacity | is | shown, | exit, | save | the | ||||||||||||
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| configuration | setup, | and |
| go | to | “Using | Your | Operating |
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| System | For | Partitioning.” |
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| “Partitioning | and | Formatting | Using | Disk Manager |
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b. | Select | the | User | Definable | drive | type. | The |
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| BIOS | configuration | will | be | a | number | between | 47 |
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| and 49. Enter 1024 for cylinders, | 16 |
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| sectors. | Set | the | Landing | Zone | and | Write | Precomp | entries |
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| zero. |
| When | the | partitioning | process | completes, | the | drive |
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| capacity | is | shown | as | 504 | MB, | but you | can use | the |
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| capacity of your drive. Save the | changes, |
| close | the |
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| continue | with | “Partitioning |
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c. | Select | Drive | Type | 1 . | The | value | displayed |
| for | the | type | 1 |
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| is 1 | MB. | When | the | partitioning | process | completes, | the |
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| capacity | is | shown | as | 10 | MB, | but | you | can | use | the | full | ||||||
| capacity of your drive. Save the | changes, |
| close | the |
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| continue | with | “Partitioning |
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| and | Formatting | Using | Disk Manager |
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