MAXDATA Notebook User Manual page 28

The Detailed Description of Hard Disk Drive Setting
n
Note:
AMIBIOS auto-
matically sets
n
IDE drive
parameters.
Set the setting as
n
"USER" to enter
the MFM, ESDI, or
n
DLL drive
parameters.
Select "Not
Installed" for
SCSI Drive.
Choose
"CDROM" option
for ATAPI CD-
ROM drive.
Entering Drive Parameters
The Decription of Drive Parameters
Parameter
WPcom
1-46
Type
The number for a drive with certain identification
parameters.
Cyln The number of cylinders in the disk drive.
Heads The number of heads.
The actual physical size of a sector gets
progressively smaller as the track diameter
diminishes. This parameter is the cylinder
number on the disk surface where write
precompensation begins.
Sec
The number of sectors per cylinder.
MFM drives have 17 sectors per cylinder. RLL
drives have 26 sectors per cylinder. ESDI
drives have 34 sectors per cylinder. SCSI and
IDE drives have even more sectors per cylinder.
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