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types (continued)
Defining your own drive type
If the parameters for your hard disk (listed in its
documentation) do not match any of the types listed in the
table above, you can define your own type. Follow these
steps:
1.
With the cursor at
the Hard disk type
option, press
Page Up
or
Page Down
to scroll through the types until
you come to 47-USERTYPE.
2.
Use the numeric keys to enter the appropriate values for
these parameters:
Cyl n
= the number of cylinders on the disk.
Head
= the number of read/write heads in the drive.
WPcom
= the precompensation cylinder.
LZone
= the landing zone (the area on which the
computer parks the heads when you run the HDSIT
program).
Sec = the number of sectors on the disk.
Size = the total amount of storage capacity for the disk.
Running the SETUP Program
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