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Entering Drive Parameters
You can also enter the hard disk drive parameters. The drive
parameters are:
Parameter
Description
Type
The number for a drive with certain identification parameters.
Cylinders
The number of cylinders in the disk drive.
Heads
The number of heads.
Write
The size of a sector gets progressively smaller as the track
Precompensation
diameter diminishes. Yet each sector must still hold 512 bytes.
Write precompensation circuitry on the hard disk compensates for
the physical difference in sector size by boosting the write
current for sectors on inner tracks. This parameter is the track
number where write precompensation begins.
Landing Zone
This number is the cylinder location where the heads will normally
park when the system is shut down.
Sectors
The number of sectors per track. MFM drives have 17 sectors
per track.
have 34 sectors per track.
more sectors per track.
Capacity
The formatted capacity of the drive is (Number of heads) x
(Number of cylinders) x (Number of sectors per track) x (512
bytes per sector)
Date and Time Configuration
Select the Standard option. Select the Date/Time icon. The
current values for each category are displayed.
through the keyboard.
Floppy A
Floppy B
Choose the Floppy Drive A or B icon to specify the floppy drive
type. The settings are Not Installed, 360 KB 5¼ inch, 1.2 MB 5¼
inch, 720 KB 3½ inch, 1.44 MB 3½ inch or 2.88 MB 3½ inch.
Chapter 2: Running Setup
RLL drives have 26 sectors per track.
SCSI and IDE drive may have even
2-3
ESDI drives
Enter new values
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