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Quickview 40 20/30/40GB AT 4-17
4.9 SYSTEM STARTUP AND OPERATION
Once you have installed the Maxtor Quickview 40 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 Quickview 40 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 Quickview 40 family of hard disk drives.
Table 4-3 Logical Addressing Format
Note: *Capacity may be restricted to 8.4GB (or less) due to
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.
MODELS CYL HD SPT MAX LBA CAPACITY
6E020L0 40,395 16 63 40,718,160 20GB
6E030L0 59,582 16 63 60,058,656 30GB
6E040L0 79,656 16 63 80,293,248 40GB