IBM ATA-3 manual Size, Deskstar Hard Disk Drive User’s Guide, Partition

you

are

installing.

Some

devices,

such

as

a

high

speed

tape

The

largest

partition

size

that

you

can

create

under

the

DOS,

Windows

drive,

do

not

operate

properly

when

installed

on

the

same

port

95,

Windows

3.x,

and

OS/2

operating

systems

that

use

the 16-bit file

with a

hard

disk

drive.

allocation

table (FAT-16)

conventions

is

approximately

2.14

GB.

15

The

primary

drive

must

be

configured

as

master

and

installed

on

Since

you

are

installing

a

drive

larger

than

2.14

GB,

you

must

create

more

than

one

partition

to

use

the

full

capacity

of

your

drive.

the

primary

IDE port. You must install

the

operating

system

on

the

primary

drive,

normally

C:.

If

you

are

using the

high

performance

file

system

(HPFS)

conventions

If

you

are

installing

a

secondary

drive

(a

drive

that

is not

thewith

OS/2,

see

your

operating

system

documentation

for

partition

primary),

the

secondary

drive

can

be:

sizing

information.

–

On

the

primary

IDE

port

and

configured

as

slave

If

you

use

the

DOS-based

FDISK

utility

to

partition

your

drive

and

–

On

the

secondary IDE

port

and

configured as

master

or

you

are

using

the

maximum

partition

size

of

2.14

GB,

you

must

enter

slave.

If

two

drives

are

installed

on

either

port,

configure

the

partition

size

as

2047

MB.

one

as

master

or

as

master

with

slave

present

and

the

other Selecting

a

Drive

Partition

Size

as

slave.

If

you

have

had

a

SCSI

drive

as

your

primary

drive

and

the

Base

your

partition

size

on

how

you

use

your

computer.

Deskstar

hard

disk

drive

is

your

first

ATA

device,

then

you

must

Select

a

larger

partition

size

if

you

want

the

convenience

of

configure

the

ATA drive as your new

C:

drive.

This

will

require

having

many

files

in

one

partition

or

if

you

have

large

databases.

installing

the operating

system on

the

primary

partition

or

moving

Select

a

smaller

partition

size

if

you

have

a

large

number

of

small

it

from

the

old

boot

drive,

since

the

system

BIOS

will

look

to the

files

such

as

text

files.

primary

ATA

port

for

a

boot

device

before

looking

at

a

SCSI

port.

FDISK

assigns

space

on

a

hard

disk

drive

in

clusters.

A

cluster,

or

Disk

Partition

Size

Limitation

allocation

unit,

is

the

smallest

unit

of space on the drive that your

operating

system

can

address

using

FAT

conventions. The

operating

system

assigns

one

or

more

clusters

to

each

file.

Even

a

very

small

15

When

referring

to

hard-disk-drive-capacity, GB means

1 000 000 000

bytes;

total

user-accessible

capacity

may

vary

depending

on

op

erating

system.

16

When

referring

to

binary

memory,

MB

means

1 048 576

bytes.

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