Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB Serial ATA Hard Disk Drive
3-11
Installation
3.7
TECHNIQUES IN DRIVE CONFIGURATION
3.7.1
Operating System Limitations
Most popular operating systems available today have additional limitations which
affect the use of large capacity drives. However, these limitations can not be corrected
on the BIOS and it is up to the operating system manufacturers to release improved
versions to address these problems.
DOS and Windows 95 use a File Allocation Table (FAT) size of 16 bits which will only
support partitions up to 2.1GB. Windows 95 OSR2, Windows 98, and Windows ME
use a FAT size of 32 bits, allowing partitions of up to 2.2 terrabytes. Windows NT,
2000, and XP use NTFS, which allows partition sizes up to 16 terrabytes.
3.8
SYSTEM STARTUP AND OPERATION
Once you have installed the DiamondMax 17 80-160GB Serial ATA 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
DiamondMax 17 80-160GB Serial ATA hard drive. 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
DiamondMax 17 80-160GB Serial ATA hard disk drives.
Summary of Contents for DiamondMax 17
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