Radio Shack TRS-80 Hardware Manual page 20

A,
Now
HARDGEN
asks
you
to
enter the
serial
numbers
you
obtained above,
It
asks
lor
the
numbers one
at
a
tirne,
begin-
ning with
the
pnrnary
drive.
Enter
each complete
serial
number,
in
the
Rorrecl
crde
1-
,
including
hyphens
if
present
5.
The
initialization
program
also
asks you
to enter the
amount
of
data
you can
store
on
the hard
disk.
This
is
the
size of
the
disk;
SO
type S C.ENTERj
for
a 5-megabyte
hard disk or 15
[
ENTER
'
for
a 15-megabyte hard
disk.
6.
The
program
then
asks
a
series of four
questions about
the
assignment
of logical
drives:
How many
Logical,
drives
do you want to
have
on your system?
HARDGEN
displays
a
tan
ge
of
m
to n.
m
is
the
minimum
number
nf logical
drives
-a
Unused
(the
mi
m
her
of
Iwd
disks
+
1),
and
n
is
the the
maximum
number
allowed. Specify the
number
of logical drives
you want
within this range.
How many floppy
drives
do you want
to
use on your system?
HARDGEN
displays
a range
oM
to n.
In
which
n
is
the
number
of
floppy drives
you
specified
in
Step
3.
If
you wish
to
reserve
more
logical drives
for
hard
disks,
you
may
enter
a number
smaller than the
number
erf
drives
you own,
in
this
ease.
hardgen
disables
ihe
unused
lluppy
drives, "you
must,
however, specify
at least
1
floppy drive
Most applications
re-
quire
only
1
or
9
floppy drives wher>
running haul
disk drives
Do
you want
to
reserve
a
Logical
drive
for use
with
Me-m
disk? (Replying
no
does
not
mean
you
cannot
vise
Memd
i
sk
However,
you may
have to disable
another drive
whi
le
using Hemdi
sk
.
Your
Model
AMP
Disk
System Owner's Manual
describes
Memdisk.
If
you wani
to
reserve a
logical
drive
for
Memdisk,
type
V enteh
i
it
not, type
N
.¥RTER).
As
the
prompl
in-
dh&les, you
tan use
MemdisK
even
if
you
type
N
,lmlhi,
but
you
may
need
to
disable another logical
drive io
do
so.
If,
at this
pGml,
the
number
of logical drives
is
too small
to
satisfy
the requirement
of at least
1
logical drive
per
physical
drive, the system
instructs
you
to
increase
the
total
numtwr
of logical drives
(maximum
ot
8)
or reduce
the
number
of
logical
devices assigned
to
other devices,
such as
floppy disk
drives or
Memdisk.
How many logical drives do you want to
use on your hard disks?
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