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Medalist 2532, Rev. B
The system error message, "Drive not Ready," appears.
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Check all cable connections. Make sure pin 1 of the drive is
connected to pin 1 of the hard-disc controller or host adapter.
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Make sure the power supply is adequate for system needs.
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Reboot the computer and make sure the drive spins up.
The FDISK error message, "No Fixed Disk Present,"
appears.
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Make sure the power supply is adequate for system needs.
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Verify the drive-type values in the system setup program.
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Check for I/O address conflicts.
The drive does not format to full capacity.
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Verify the drive-type values in the system setup program. One
of the following problems may have occurred:
– The values may be set with an incorrect translation charac-
teristic.
– You may have entered a parameter value that exceeds the
physical capacity of the drive.
– You entered a translation characteristic that does not take full
advantage of the drive's capacity.
– The drive's physical specifications exceed the translation lim-
its imposed by the BIOS.
Caution. If you change the drive-type values in the
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system setup program, you must partition and format
the drive again. This erases data on the drive .
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If you have partitioned the drive into individual logical drives,
you may need to make the partitions smaller to access the full
drive capacity.
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