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Maxtor QuickView 400/500GB Serial ATA Hard Disk Drive 3-13
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
QuickView Serial ATA 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
3-2 gives the logical parameters that provide the maximum capacity on the
QuickView Serial ATA hard disk drives.
3.8.1 Big Drive Enabler (Software download)
Maxtor’s Big Drive Enabler is a one step executable that enables support for drives
larger than 137 Gigabytes in Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 and XP Service Pack 1.
This utility takes the guess work out of editing the windows registry. The Big Drive
Enabler fixes an operating system limitations. This utility is needed anytime a hard
drive larger than 137 GB is connected to a system’s ATA bus, regardless of any
system BIOS that supports 48-bit LBA.
Note: Failure to install the required service packs and install the Enabler
Big LBA patch can result in data loss when accessing the hard disk
beyond 137 Gigabytes. For more information regarding Win-
dows limitations and the 137 Gigabyte barrier, please read Max-
tor Knowledge Base Answer ID 960 and Microsoft Knowledge
Base Article 303013.
3.8.2 To use the Maxtor Big Drive Enabler,
Download big_drive_enabler.exe from the Maxtor.com website, then double click
on the downloaded file to begin installation.
3.9 Logical Addressing Format Specifications
Table 3-2 Logical Addressing Format
MODELS INTERFACE CYL HD SPT MAX LBA CAPACITY
3H400F0
SATA 300
16 MB Buffer
16,383 16 63 781,422,768 400GB
3H500F0
SATA 300
16 MB Buffer
16,383 16 63 976,773,168 500GB