IBM ATA-3 User manual

Deskstar Enhanced IDE
(ATA-3) Hard Disk Drive
User's Guide
OPTIONS
by IBM

Note: If you are using this product in the United States, Canada, or Puerto Rico, be sure to read the Deskstar Enhanced IDE (ATA-3) Hard
Disk Drive User's Guide Supplement for warranty information and jumper setting information for your hard disk drive. Also, refer to
Appendix C, “Notices” on page 3-14 for Notice information.
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First Edition (September 1997)
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Contents
Safety: Read First . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
About This Book ........................ vi
Part 1: Quick Installation Guide ................................................ 1-1
Part 2: Installation Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1
Product Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1
Before You Begin ....................... 2-2
Installation Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2
Installation Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3
Handling Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-7
Installing the Drive ...................... 2-7
Step 1. Opening Your Computer ................ 2-7
Step 2. Unpacking the Drive .................. 2-7
Step 4. Preparing the Drive for a 5.25-inch Bay ........ 2-9
Step 5. Mounting the Drive in the Bay ............. 2-9
Step 6. Attaching the Cables to the Drive .......... 2-10
Step 7. Completing the Installation .............. 2-11
Preparing the Drive for Use ................ 2-11
Determining What To Do Next ............... 2-11
Using Your Operating System for Partitioning ........ 2-12
Correcting Hardware Problems ................ 2-14
Correcting BIOS Limitations and Partitioning Using Disk
Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-15
Managing Your Hard Disk Drive .............. 2-17
Problem Solving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-19
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Part 3: Appendixes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1
Appendix A. Safety Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1
Appendix B. Help and Service Information ........ 3-11
Step 1. Preparing for the Call ................ 3-11
Step 2. Placing the Call to IBM ............... 3-11
Computer and BIOS Manufacturers ............. 3-12
Hard Disk Drive Manufacturers ............... 3-13
Appendix C. Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-14
Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-14
Trademarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-14
iv Deskstar Hard Disk Drive User’s Guide

Safety: Read First
CAUTION: Read the Safety Information in Appendix A, page 3-1,
before installing this product.
DO NOT print this page— replace with World Wide 'Read First'
translations.
v

About This Book
This book contains instructions for installing, setting up, and using
your Deskstar Hard Disk Drive. The manual is divided into the
following parts:
Part 1: Abbreviated installation instructions
Part 2: Product description, installation requirements, and
handling, installation, and configuration instructions
Part 3: Safety, service, and notice information
The illustrations in this publication might be slightly different from
your hardware.
Attention: Be sure to read “Correcting BIOS Limitations and
Partitioning Using Disk Manager” on page 1-6 before you start
your installation. The basic input and output system (BIOS) is the
component in your computer that controls communication between
the processor and the input-output devices. Some BIOS programs
contain addressing limitations that can cause
configuration-management errors and startup program failures
when a high capacity hard disk drive is installed.
Note: For jumper setting and product warranty information, be sure
to read the Deskstar Enhanced IDE (ATA-3) Hard Disk Drive User’s
Guide Supplement.
The installer of the drive will have to complete the following steps:
Set the jumper setting on the drive (and possibly make changes to
installed drives)
Physically install the drive in a 3.5" or 5.5" drive bay
Configure the system
Partition and format the drive
Install applications or operating system
If you are unsure about installing this option in your system, have a
qualified technician or IBM authorized carrier to install the drive for
you.
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Part 1: Quick Installation Guide
Part 1 contains the Deskstar Hard Disk Drive installation instructions
in abbreviated form. If you are familiar with IDE products and
experienced in installing options, use these instructions to quickly
install your IDE drive. For a description of the hard disk drive and
more detailed information about how to install and use the drive, see
“Part 2: Installation Guide” on page 2-1.
Caution: Read the Safety Information in
Appendix A, page 3-1, before installing this product.
In addition to this User’s Guide, your option package contains:
Deskstar hard disk drive
Disk Manager Diskette
Four drive mounting screws
IDE cable for connecting two IDE devices
(some option packages)
Mounting brackets with screws (some option packages)
The Deskstar Enhanced IDE (ATA-3) Hard Disk Drive User’s Guide
Supplement provides warranty and jumper setting information.
Contact your place of purchase if parts are missing or damaged. Be
sure to retain your proof of purchase. It might be required to receive
warranty service.
Step 1. Opening the Computer
1. Turn off all attached devices.
2. Turn off the computer.
3. Unplug the power cords for the computer and all attached
devices.
4. Open the computer.
For specific information on opening your computer, see the
documentation that comes with your computer.
Step 2. Unpacking the Drive
1. Before opening the antistatic bag containing the drive, touch the
bag to an unpainted surface on the computer for at least two
seconds. This neutralizes any static electricity buildup on the bag
and on your body.
2. Remove the drive from the bag. Handle the drive by the edges.
Do not touch any exposed components on the drive.
Copyright IBM Corp. 1997 1-1

Step 3. Setting the Configuration Jumpers
Your drive has four configuration positions that determine the data
transmission priority. The positions are:
Master
Slave
Cable Select
Slave Present
Use the appropriate configurations for your desired purpose:
Master
If you are installing the Deskstar as the only drive on the IDE cable or
you are replacing the master drive on the IDE cable, verify that the
jumpers are in the master configuration.
Slave
If you are installing the Deskstar as the slave drive, place the jumpers
in the slave configuration. If the existing master drive is also a
Deskstar, verify that the jumpers are in the master configuration.
If the master drive is not a Deskstar, see the documentation that comes
with the drive, check the drive label, refer to the Disk Manager Online
Manual, or call the drive manufacturer to determine if you need to
reset the jumpers. For information on how to contact the most
common hard disk drive manufacturers, see “Hard Disk Drive
Manufacturers” on page 3-13.
Cable Select
Some systems use special ATA cables with two wires reversed in the
device connectors to allow the drives to be ordered by the cable rather
than the jumper configuration. The Cable Select configuration is only
to be used for systems equipped with these special cables. See the
documentation that comes with your computer to determine if your
ATA adapter requires you to place the jumpers in the Cable Select
configuration.
If you place the jumpers in the Cable Select configuration, the IDE
cable automatically assigns the master and slave settings based on the
position of the drive on the cable. Any other devices on the IDE
cable must also be set to Cable Select.
Slave Present
Your ATA drive has a Slave Present position for the special case
when you are installing the Deskstar as master with an older and
slower slave drive that does not comply with the ATA communication
standard.
If you are installing the Deskstar drive as the master, you have a slave
device on the same ATA cable, and your configuration-setup program
does not recognize the slave drive, turn off your computer and unplug
the power cord. Open your computer. On the master drive, change
your jumpers from the Master configuration (the factory default) to the
Slave Present configuration. Then close your computer, reattach the
power cord, and restart your computer.
For information on jumper positions for your drive, see the Deskstar
Enhanced IDE (ATA-3) Hard Disk Drive User’s Guide Supplement.
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Step 4. Installing the Drive in the Drive Bay
Mount the hard disk drive in the drive bay using the four mounting
screws provided with the drive. For proper grounding be sure to use
all four screws.
Step 5. Connecting the Drive and the Cables
Connect the drive to an available 40-pin connector on the IDE
interface cable. The interface cable can have up to three connectors.
For the best signal quality when you are connecting only one device
on the IDE cable, connect one end of the cable to the IDE port and
connect the device to the connector on the other end. Do not use the
middle connector.
If you are connecting two devices on the IDE cable, connect one end
to the IDE port and connect the master and slave devices to the middle
connector or the connector on the other end. Many computers have
two cables for attaching up to four ATA devices. For best
performance, attach the fast devices (hard drives) on one cable with
the slower devices (ATA CD-ROM's, tape drives or removable media
drives) on the second cable. If you must move a slower device to a
second cable, consult your system manual to properly configure the
device.
Connect an available dc power-cable connector to the four-pin dc
power connector on the drive. The cable connector is keyed and fits
only one way. Be sure that the cables will not be pinched or crowded
by the computer cover and that all other cable and power connections
are secure.
Step 6. Closing the Computer
1. Replace the computer cover and secure it in place.
2. Reconnect any disconnected external devices.
Be sure that the keyboard, mouse, monitor, and other external
devices are securely attached.
3. Reconnect the ac power cord to the computer.
Step 7. Preparing the Drive for Use
Attention: Partitioning a hard disk drive or installing Disk
Manager on the drive erases all user data on the drive.
Disk Partition Size Limitation
1When referring to hard-disk-drive-capacity, GB means 1000000000 bytes; total user-accessible capacity may vary depending on operating system.
Part 1: Quick Installation Guide 1-3

The largest partition size that you can create under the DOS, Windows
95, Windows 3.x, and OS/2 operating systems that use 16-bit file
allocation table (FAT) conventions is approximately 2.14 GB.1 When
you are installing a drive larger than 2.14 GB, you must create more
than one partition to use the full capacity of your drive.
If you are using the high performance file system (HPFS) conventions
with OS/2, see your operating system documentation for partition
sizing information.
To create the maximum partition size (2.14 GB) when you are using
the DOS based FDISK utility to partition your drive, you must enter
the partition size as 2047 MB.2
For more information about partition sizing, see your operating system
user's guide. Also, the Disk Manager Online Manual contains
information about clusters and how to assign hard disk drive partitions.
To open the Disk Manager manual from the DOS prompt, type A:
and press Enter to get to the A: prompt, insert the Disk Manager
Diskette, type dm/h, and press Enter.
Determining What to Do Next
After you complete the hardware installation, you must partition and
format your new drive before you can use it.
If the drive you are installing will be your primary drive (the
drive that contains the operating system) and you will NOT be
using the Disk Manager BIOS, insert the first operating system
installation diskette into the diskette drive; then restart the
computer and follow the onscreen prompts.
If you do not have operating system installation diskettes, see the
documentation that comes with your operating system.
If the drive you are installing will be your primary drive (the
drive that contains the operating system) and you WILL be using
the Disk Manager BIOS, insert the Disk Manager Diskette into
the diskette drive; then complete the following steps:
1. Turn on the computer.
2. At the "Welcome to Disk Manager" banner, press Enter.
3. Read messages and press Enter to continue.
4. At the Disk Manager Main Menu, select Easy Disk
Installation and press Enter.
2When software such as FDISK refers to memory capacity, MB means 1048576 bytes.
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Disk Manager will display the number and types of drives
found on your system and ask you if the list is correct.
Follow the onscreen prompts.
5. Disk Manager will then display the drive capacity partitions
selected for your system and ask if you wish to continue.
Select Yes and press Enterto continue.
6. Follow the onscreen prompts.
You will be prompted to insert the operation system diskettes
in the diskette drive and to reboot the system when
appropriate. After following the onscreen prompts, your
drive will be successfully partitioned and formatted as the
primary drive on your system.
If the drive will be a secondary drive, make sure the diskette
drive is empty; then restart the computer.
When the hardware in your computer is changed, your configuration
information must be changed to reflect the hardware changes. Most
computers automatically change the information for you, but for some
computers you must make configuration choices the first time you
restart your system after you have made hardware changes. For most
IBM computers, you can see the configuration information during
computer startup by pressing F1 when the configuration graphic
displays in the upper right corner of your screen.
If the configuration-setup screen does not display, see the
documentation that comes with your computer for information on how
to access the configuration program. Save your changes, exit from the
configuration program, and do one of the following:
If the configuration-setup program reports the size of your new
drive as what you expected, see “Using Your Operating System
for Partitioning” to partition and format your drive.
If your computer seems to lockup, hang, or does not restart
successfully, see “Correcting BIOS Limitations and Partitioning
Using Disk Manager” on page 1-6 to partition and format your
drive.
If the configuration-setup program reports your new drive size as
very much less than what you expected, see “Correcting BIOS
Limitations and Partitioning Using Disk Manager” on page 1-6 to
partition and format your drive.
Using Your Operating System for Partitioning
Attention: Partitioning and formatting a hard disk drive erases
all user data on the drive.
See the information that comes with your operating system to
determine how to partition and format your new drive using the
operating system installation procedures.
If you are installing the primary drive, the configuration-setup
program prompts you for partitioning and formatting information
as part of the operating system installation process.
If you are installing a secondary drive, you must enter the
commands required by your operating system to partition and
format the drive. For DOS with Windows, use the FDISK
command followed by the FORMAT command.
Part 1: Quick Installation Guide 1-5

Correcting BIOS Limitations and Partitioning Using
Disk Manager
Your BIOS might contain limitations that can cause operational
failures when you install one of the new and larger hard disk drives.
See the documentation that comes with your IBM computer to install
your hard disk drive, and to configure your system.
The following procedures contain steps to solve most known BIOS
limitations using manual overrides and the Disk Manager software.
Attention: The following steps do not apply to IBM computers.
1. Access your configuration-setup information.
2. Select the drive number for the new drive that you are installing.
Based on BIOS type, number of IDE controllers, and number
of IDE devices in your computer, the configuration-setup
program displays options for up to four devices.
Normally drives 1 and 2 are connected to the primary IDE
controller and drives 3 and 4 are connected to the secondary
IDE controller.
If you have two IDE controllers, drives 1 and 3 are the
master devices and drives 2 and 4 are the slave devices.
If you have one IDE controller, drive 1 is the master device
and drive 2 is the slave device.
3. Based on your configuration, at least one of the following options
(listed in order of preference) is available. Do one of the
following:
a. Select the Auto Detect configuration-setup option if it is
available.
If the correct disk capacity is shown, exit, save the
configuration setup, and go to “Using Your Operating
System For Partitioning.”
If the correct disk capacity is not shown, continue with
“Partitioning and Formatting Using Disk Manager.”
b. Select the User Definable drive type. The User Definable
entry for BIOS configuration will be a number between 47
and 49. Enter 1024 for cylinders, 16 for heads, and 63 for
sectors. Set the Landing Zone and Write Precomp entries to
zero. When the partitioning process completes, the drive
capacity is shown as 504 MB, but you can use the full
capacity of your drive. Save the changes, close the
configuration-setup program, and continue with “Partitioning
and Formatting Using Disk Manager.”
c. Select Drive Type 1. The value displayed for the type 1
drive is 1MB. When the partitioning process completes, the
drive capacity is shown as 10 MB, but you can use the full
capacity of your drive. Save the changes, close the
configuration-setup program, and continue with “Partitioning
and Formatting Using Disk Manager.”
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Partitioning and Formatting Using Disk Manager
The Disk Manager software contains programs that can partition,
format, and prepare your drive for the installation of an operating
system.
The following procedure prepares your drive for use in both IBM and
Non-IBM computers.
1. Turn off the computer.
2. Insert the Disk Manager diskette and restart the computer.
3. Follow the instructions on the screen.
4. When the Disk Manager main menu displays, select View/Print
Online Manual and press Enter to view information by
operating system on how to partition your drive and install your
operating system.
5. Return to the main menu, select Easy Disk Installation, and
press Enter to accept the default partitioning. If you do not want
to accept the default drive partitioning, select Advanced Disk
Installation to choose your own partition sizes.
6. Follow the instructions on the screens to complete the drive
partitioning process. Install your operating system as described in
the Disk Manager Online Manual.
Part 1: Quick Installation Guide 1-7

Quick Installation (German)
Part 1 contains the Deskstar Hard Disk Drive installation instructions
in abbreviated form. If you are familiar with IDE products and
experienced in installing options, use these instructions to quickly
install your IDE drive.
Caution: Read the Safety Information in
Appendix A, page 3-1, before installing this product.
In addition to this User’s Guide, your option package contains:
Deskstar hard disk drive
Disk Manager Diskette
Four drive mounting screws
IDE cable for connecting two IDE devices
(some option packages)
Mounting brackets with screws (some option packages)
The Deskstar Enhanced IDE (ATA-3) Hard Disk Drive User’s Guide
Supplement provides warranty and jumper setting information.
Contact your place of purchase if parts are missing or damaged. Be
sure to retain your proof of purchase. It might be required to receive
warranty service.
Step 1. Opening the Computer
1. Turn off all attached devices.
2. Turn off the computer.
3. Unplug the power cords for the computer and all attached
devices.
4. Open the computer.
For specific information on opening your computer, see the
documentation that comes with your computer.
Step 2. Unpacking the Drive
1. Before opening the antistatic bag containing the drive, touch the
bag to an unpainted surface on the computer for at least two
seconds. This neutralizes any static electricity buildup on the bag
and on your body.
2. Remove the drive from the bag. Handle the drive by the edges.
Do not touch any exposed components on the drive.
1-8 Deskstar Hard Disk Drive User’s Guide

Step 3. Setting the Configuration Jumpers
Your drive has four configuration positions that determine the data
transmission priority. The positions are:
Master
Slave
Cable Select
Slave Present
Use the appropriate configurations for your desired purpose:
Master
If you are installing the Deskstar as the only drive on the IDE cable or
you are replacing the master drive on the IDE cable, verify that the
jumpers are in the master configuration.
Slave
If you are installing the Deskstar as the slave drive, place the jumpers
in the slave configuration. If the existing master drive is also a
Deskstar, verify that the jumpers are in the master configuration.
If the master drive is not a Deskstar, see the documentation that comes
with the drive, check the drive label, refer to the Disk Manager Online
Manual, or call the drive manufacturer to determine if you need to
reset the jumpers. For information on how to contact the most
common hard disk drive manufacturers, see “Hard Disk Drive
Manufacturers” on page 3-13.
Cable Select
Some systems use special ATA cables with two wires reversed in the
device connectors to allow the drives to be ordered by the cable rather
than the jumper configuration. The Cable Select configuration is only
to be used for systems equipped with these special cables. See the
documentation that comes with your computer to determine if your
ATA adapter requires you to place the jumpers in the Cable Select
configuration.
If you place the jumpers in the Cable Select configuration, the IDE
cable automatically assigns the master and slave settings based on the
position of the drive on the cable. Any other devices on the IDE
cable must also be set to Cable Select.
Slave Present
Your ATA drive has a Slave Present position for the special case
when you are installing the Deskstar as master with an older and
slower slave drive that does not comply with the ATA communication
standard.
If you are installing the Deskstar drive as the master, you have a slave
device on the same ATA cable, and your configuration-setup program
does not recognize the slave drive, turn off your computer and unplug
the power cord. Open your computer. On the master drive, change
your jumpers from the Master configuration (the factory default) to the
Slave Present configuration. Then close your computer, reattach the
power cord, and restart your computer.
For information on jumper positions for your drive, see the Deskstar
Enhanced IDE (ATA-3) Hard Disk Drive User’s Guide Supplement.
Part 1: Quick Installation Guide 1-9

Step 4. Installing the Drive in the Drive Bay
Mount the hard disk drive in the drive bay using the four mounting
screws provided with the drive. For proper grounding be sure to use
all four screws.
Step 5. Connecting the Drive and the Cables
Connect the drive to an available 40-pin connector on the IDE
interface cable. The interface cable can have up to three connectors.
For the best signal quality when you are connecting only one device
on the IDE cable, connect one end of the cable to the IDE port and
connect the device to the connector on the other end. Do not use the
middle connector.
If you are connecting two devices on the IDE cable, connect one end
to the IDE port and connect the master and slave devices to the middle
connector or the connector on the other end. Many computers have
two cables for attaching up to four ATA devices. For best
performance, attach the fast devices (hard drives) on one cable with
the slower devices (ATA CD-ROM's, tape drives or removable media
drives) on the second cable. If you must move a slower device to a
second cable, consult your system manual to properly configure the
device.
Connect an available dc power-cable connector to the four-pin dc
power connector on the drive. The cable connector is keyed and fits
only one way. Be sure that the cables will not be pinched or crowded
by the computer cover and that all other cable and power connections
are secure.
Step 6. Closing the Computer
1. Replace the computer cover and secure it in place.
2. Reconnect any disconnected external devices.
Be sure that the keyboard, mouse, monitor, and other external
devices are securely attached.
3. Reconnect the ac power cord to the computer.
Step 7. Preparing the Drive for Use
Attention: Partitioning a hard disk drive or installing Disk
Manager on the drive erases all user data on the drive.
Disk Partition Size Limitation
3When referring to hard-disk-drive-capacity, GB means 1000000000 bytes; total user-accessible capacity may vary depending on operating system.
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The largest partition size that you can create under the DOS, Windows
95, Windows 3.x, and OS/2 operating systems that use 16-bit file
allocation table (FAT) conventions is approximately 2.14 GB.3 When
you are installing a drive larger than 2.14 GB, you must create more
than one partition to use the full capacity of your drive.
If you are using the high performance file system (HPFS) conventions
with OS/2, see your operating system documentation for partition
sizing information.
To create the maximum partition size (2.14 GB) when you are using
the DOS based FDISK utility to partition your drive, you must enter
the partition size as 2047 MB.4
For more information about partition sizing, see your operating system
user's guide. Also, the Disk Manager Online Manual contains
information about clusters and how to assign hard disk drive partitions.
To open the Disk Manager manual from the DOS prompt, type A:
and press Enter to get to the A: prompt, insert the Disk Manager
Diskette, type dm/h, and press Enter.
Determining What to Do Next
After you complete the hardware installation, you must partition and
format your new drive before you can use it.
If the drive you are installing will be your primary drive (the
drive that contains the operating system) and you will NOT be
using the Disk Manager BIOS, insert the first operating system
installation diskette into the diskette drive; then restart the
computer and follow the onscreen prompts.
If you do not have operating system installation diskettes, see the
documentation that comes with your operating system.
If the drive you are installing will be your primary drive (the
drive that contains the operating system) and you WILL be using
the Disk Manager BIOS, insert the Disk Manager Diskette into
the diskette drive; then complete the following steps:
1. Turn on the computer.
2. At the "Welcome to Disk Manager" banner, press Enter.
3. Read messages and press Enter to continue.
4. At the Disk Manager Main Menu, select Easy Disk
Installation and press Enter.
4When software such as FDISK refers to memory capacity, MB means 1048576 bytes.
Part 1: Quick Installation Guide 1-11

Disk Manager will display the number and types of drives
found on your system and ask you if the list is correct.
Follow the onscreen prompts.
5. Disk Manager will then display the drive capacity partitions
selected for your system and ask if you wish to continue.
Select Yes and press Enterto continue.
6. Follow the onscreen prompts.
You will be prompted to insert the operation system diskettes
in the diskette drive and to reboot the system when
appropriate. After following the onscreen prompts, your
drive will be successfully partitioned and formatted as the
primary drive on your system.
If the drive will be a secondary drive, make sure the diskette
drive is empty; then restart the computer.
When the hardware in your computer is changed, your configuration
information must be changed to reflect the hardware changes. Most
computers automatically change the information for you, but for some
computers you must make configuration choices the first time you
restart your system after you have made hardware changes. For most
IBM computers, you can see the configuration information during
computer startup by pressing F1 when the configuration graphic
displays in the upper right corner of your screen.
If the configuration-setup screen does not display, see the
documentation that comes with your computer for information on how
to access the configuration program. Save your changes, exit from the
configuration program, and do one of the following:
If the configuration-setup program reports the size of your new
drive as what you expected, see “Using Your Operating System
for Partitioning” to partition and format your drive.
If your computer seems to lockup, hang, or does not restart
successfully, see “Correcting BIOS Limitations and Partitioning
Using Disk Manager” on page 1-13 to partition and format your
drive.
If the configuration-setup program reports your new drive size as
very much less than what you expected, see “Correcting BIOS
Limitations and Partitioning Using Disk Manager” on page 1-13
to partition and format your drive.
Using Your Operating System for Partitioning
Attention: Partitioning and formatting a hard disk drive erases
all user data on the drive.
See the information that comes with your operating system to
determine how to partition and format your new drive using the
operating system installation procedures.
If you are installing the primary drive, the configuration-setup
program prompts you for partitioning and formatting information
as part of the operating system installation process.
If you are installing a secondary drive, you must enter the
commands required by your operating system to partition and
format the drive. For DOS with Windows, use the FDISK
command followed by the FORMAT command.
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Correcting BIOS Limitations and Partitioning Using
Disk Manager
Your BIOS might contain limitations that can cause operational
failures when you install one of the new and larger hard disk drives.
See the documentation that comes with your IBM computer to install
your hard disk drive, and to configure your system.
The following procedures contain steps to solve most known BIOS
limitations using manual overrides and the Disk Manager software.
Attention: The following steps do not apply to IBM computers.
1. Access your configuration-setup information.
2. Select the drive number for the new drive that you are installing.
Based on BIOS type, number of IDE controllers, and number
of IDE devices in your computer, the configuration-setup
program displays options for up to four devices.
Normally drives 1 and 2 are connected to the primary IDE
controller and drives 3 and 4 are connected to the secondary
IDE controller.
If you have two IDE controllers, drives 1 and 3 are the
master devices and drives 2 and 4 are the slave devices.
If you have one IDE controller, drive 1 is the master device
and drive 2 is the slave device.
3. Based on your configuration, at least one of the following options
(listed in order of preference) is available. Do one of the
following:
a. Select the Auto Detect configuration-setup option if it is
available.
If the correct disk capacity is shown, exit, save the
configuration setup, and go to “Using Your Operating
System For Partitioning.”
If the correct disk capacity is not shown, continue with
“Partitioning and Formatting Using Disk Manager.”
b. Select the User Definable drive type. The User Definable
entry for BIOS configuration will be a number between 47
and 49. Enter 1024 for cylinders, 16 for heads, and 63 for
sectors. Set the Landing Zone and Write Precomp entries to
zero. When the partitioning process completes, the drive
capacity is shown as 504 MB, but you can use the full
capacity of your drive. Save the changes, close the
configuration-setup program, and continue with “Partitioning
and Formatting Using Disk Manager.”
c. Select Drive Type 1. The value displayed for the type 1
drive is 1MB. When the partitioning process completes, the
drive capacity is shown as 10 MB, but you can use the full
capacity of your drive. Save the changes, close the
configuration-setup program, and continue with “Partitioning
and Formatting Using Disk Manager.”
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Partitioning and Formatting Using Disk Manager
The Disk Manager software contains programs that can partition,
format, and prepare your drive for the installation of an operating
system.
The following procedure prepares your drive for use in both IBM and
Non-IBM computers.
1. Turn off the computer.
2. Insert the Disk Manager diskette and restart the computer.
3. Follow the instructions on the screen.
4. When the Disk Manager main menu displays, select View/Print
Online Manual and press Enter to view information by
operating system on how to partition your drive and install your
operating system.
5. Return to the main menu, select Easy Disk Installation, and
press Enter to accept the default partitioning. If you do not want
to accept the default drive partitioning, select Advanced Disk
Installation to choose your own partition sizes.
6. Follow the instructions on the screens to complete the drive
partitioning process. Install your operating system as described in
the Disk Manager Online Manual.
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