System Startup And Operation - Maxtor DiamondMax Plus8 20 Product Manual

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SYSTEM STARTUP AND OPERATION

Once you have installed the Maxtor DiamondMax Plus8 20/30/40GB AT
hard disk drive, and adapter board (if required) in the host system, you
are ready to partition and format the drive for operation. To set up the
drive correctly, follow these steps:
1. Power on the system.
2. Run the SETUP program. This is generally on a Diagnostics or
Utilities disk, or within the system's BIOS. Some system BIOS
have an auto-detecting feature making SETUP unnecessary.
3. Enter the appropriate parameters.
The SETUP program allows you to enter the types of optional hardware
installed—such as the hard disk drive type, the floppy disk drive
capacity, and the display adapter type. The system's BIOS uses this
information to initialize the system when the power is switched on. For
instructions on how to use the SETUP program, refer to the system
manual for your PC.
During the AT system CMOS setup, you must enter the drive type for
the Maxtor DiamondMax Plus8 hard disk drives. The drive supports the
translation of its physical drive geometry parameters such as cylinders,
heads, and sectors per track to a logical addressing mode. The drive can
work with different BIOS drive-type tables of the various host systems.
You can choose any drive type that does not exceed the capacity of the
drive. Table 4-3 gives the logical parameters that provide the maximum
capacity on the Maxtor DiamondMax Plus8 family of hard disk drives.
MODELS
6E020L0
6E030L0
6E040L0
Note: *Capacity may be restricted to 8.4GB (or less) due to
To match the logical specifications of the drive to the drive type of a
particular BIOS, consult the system's drive-type table. This table
Logical Addressing Format
Table 4-3
CYL
40,395
59,582
79,656
system BIOS limitations. Check with your system man-
ufacturer to determine if your BIOS supports LBA Mode
for hard drives greater than 8.4GB. Default logical cyl-
inders is limited to 16,383 as per the ATA-4 specifica-
tions.
HD SPT MAX LBA
16 63 40,718,160
16 63 60,058,656
16 63 80,293,248
DiamondMax Plus8 20/30/40GB AT
Installation
CAPACITY
20GB
30GB
40GB
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