Some hard disk drives may not support the power management
features on your system. You may need to disable these features
in SETUP; see “Setting the Green PC Options” in Appendix B for
more information.
You see a hard disk drive error when you start your system.
Run SETUP and check that your system is auto-sensing the
correct drive type. If SETUP cannot automatically detect the
hard disk drive type or displays information that does not match
your drive, you need to define your own drive type. See
“Defining your own drive parameters” in Appendix B.
Make sure that the appropriate IDE controller is enabled with
the Local Bus IDE Adapter SETUP option; see “Configuring
integrated peripherals” in Appendix B.
Make sure the jumpers on the hard disk drive are set correctly.
See the documentation that came with the drive for more
information.
You are unable to store data on the hard disk drive.
Make sure your hard disk drive has space available for storing
data. If the hard disk drive has been in a power-saving mode,
make sure the drive has had time to achieve its full operating
speed before you try to write data to it.
You have been using your
hard
disk drive successfully for
some time but notice a reduction in performance.
The data on the disk may have become fragmented. Back up all
your data and use a disk optimization utility (such as MS-DOS
Defrag or Windows 95 Disk Defragmenter) to reorganize the
files on your disk.
If you’re using MS-DOS and Windows 3.1, check that your PCI
IDE driver is installed and loaded; see “Installing the PCI IDE
Drivers” in Appendix B.
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