Dell Precision 410 User Manual page 52

Dell Precision 410 Mini Tower Systems User's Guide
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If the system generates a drive error message the first time you boot your system
after installing an EIDE drive, it may mean that your particular drive does not work
with the automatic drive-type detect feature. If you suspect that your problem is
related to drive type, try entering your drive-type information in one of the following
ways:
If you know the drive-type number, you can type it.
If you don't know the drive-type number, you can enter your own parameters.
See the next two subsections for instructions.
Use the drive-type number you found in the documentation that came with the drive
or, if the drive was installed by Dell when you purchased your system, on the manu-
facturing test report that was shipped with your system.
To set the drive-type number in the System Setup program, highlight the appropriate
drive option (Drive 0 or Drive 1) and type the correct drive-type number. If you prefer,
you can press the right- or left-arrow key to increase or decrease, respectively, the
drive-type number until the correct one is displayed.
The Drive 0 and Drive 1 options display the following seven parameters for each drive
type:
Type is the drive-type number for the selected hard-disk drive.
Cyls is the number of logical cylinders.
Hds indicates the number of logical heads in the drive.
Pre (precompensation cylinder ) is the cylinder number at which the electrical cur-
rent for the drive head changes to compensate for differences in data density
across the disk surface (this parameter has no effect for EIDE drives).
LZ is the cylinder number that is used as the drive's landing zone for the
heads when the drive is not in use.
Sec is the number of logical sectors per track.
Size (automatically calculated by the system) indicates the number of millions of
bytes of storage provided by the drive.
If none of the supported drive types match the parameters of your new drive, you can
enter your own parameters. To do so, highlight the appropriate drive option (Drive 0 or
Drive 1) and type u to display Usr1. You can then use the right- or left-arrow key to
switch between the Usr1 and Usr2 settings. Then press the <Tab> key to highlight
each of the parameter fields in succession, and enter the appropriate number for each
field. You can have only two user-defined drive types.