INSTALLATION

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.

Master Device

Slave Device

Cable Select

J50 J48 J46 J44 J42

J50 J48 J46 J44 J42

J50 J48 J46 J44 J42

EIDE Interface Connector J1

Power Connector J2

J50 – Master/Slave

J48 – Cable Select

J46 – 4092 Cylinder Limitation

J44 – Factory Reserved

J42 – Factory Reserved

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 BIOS parameters to a User Definable Type with 4,092 cylinders, 16 heads and 63 sectors per track for the Maxtor hard drive. Then follow the instructions for setting the BIOS in Section 6 then Section 7 to prepare the hard drive with MaxBlast software.

How to Obtain MaxBlast Software

If a MaxBlast software installation diskette was not included with the hard drive, the software may be downloaded from Maxtor’s Internet home page at http://www.maxtor.com.

After downloading MaxBlast, perform the following steps to create a bootable diskette:

1If MaxBlast was downloaded to a hard drive, perform the following steps below. If MaxBlast was downloaded to a diskette, skip to step 2.

Insert a blank 1.44 MB diskette in the A: floppy disk drive.

Set the system DOS prompt to the hard drive letter and directory where the downloaded MaxBlast installation software is stored.

Type “MAXBLAST,“ press the [Enter] key and follow the on-screen prompts. This will create a bootable diskette with MaxBlast software loaded and ready for use. Go to step 3.

2If the downloaded MaxBlast installation software is on a diskette, place this diskette in the A: floppy disk drive.

Set the system to the floppy disk drive DOS prompt.

Type “MAXBLAST,“ press the [Enter] key and follow the on-screen prompts. This will create a bootable diskette with MaxBlast software loaded and ready for use.

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Maxtor 90256D2, 91152D8, 90845D6, 90648D5, 90720D5, 90840D6, 90432D3 How to Obtain MaxBlast Software, System Hangs During Boot

91152D8, 90845D6, 90648D5, 90720D5, 90510D4 specifications

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