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Software Installation
This section contains instructions for low level formatting the
Winchester drives.
1. Insert our Advanced diagnostic diskette (or equivalent or
AT compatibles).
2. Turn on the power.
3. Boot the diagnostic and select the setup option.
Avoid system damage by consulting your system technical
reference manual to ensure that your Winchester drive
type is supported by the host BIOS drive tables. Not all
AT compatibles share the same drive tables as IBM.
4. Select proper drive type. Consult the technical reference
manual for further information on these parameters.
Step 5 requires execution of low level format. Use of the
IBM Advanced Diagnostic (or similar program for IBM
compatibles) is necessary since these controllers contain
no on-board Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) ROM.
Furthermore, the low level format destroys all data on the
drive. If the drive contains useful data, backup the drive
before executing the low level format program.
5. Insert the Advanced Diagnostic diskette and execute the
low level format.
6. Load and execute the FDISK and FORMAT programs.
CAUTION
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