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Each IDE Adapter parameter has a right-pointing arrow to
the left of it. Selecting the option displays IDE hard disk pa-
rameters. Select an IDE Adapter option and set parameters
for each hard disk separately.
Use the following table to configure the hard disk.
NOTE
type detection, you need only to select the Autotype
Fixed Disk parameter. The system then automati-
cally detects the hard disk type and sets the remain-
ing parameters.
PARAMETER
OPTIONS
Autotype Fixed
Automatically
Disk
detected by
the system
Type
1 to 39
User
Heads
1 to 64
Sectors/Track
1 to 63
Landing Zone*
1 to 2048
Write Precomp*
1 to 2048
None
*IDE drives do not require setting Landing Zone and Write Precomp.
2-10 Setting System Parameters
If your IDE hard disk features auto IDE
IDE Hard Disk Parameters
DESCRIPTION
Pressing
Enter
attempt to detect the hard disk type. If
successful, Setup fills in the remaining
fields on this menu and you do not need
to select the disk parameters.
Selecting 1 to 39 fills in all remaining
fields with values for predefined disk type.
"User" prompts user to fill in remaining
fields.
Specifies number of read/write heads.
Specifies number of sectors per track.
Specifies number of cylinder specified
as the landing zone for the read/write
heads.
Specifies number of the cylinder at
which to change the write timing.
causes the system to
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