Dell OptiPlex E1 - Manual (Page 35)

Using the System Setup Program 2-7
,I Use the drive-type number you found in the documentation that came with the drive,
or if the drive was installed by Dell when you purchased your system, access the
Manufacturing Test Report from the Dell Accessories folder.
To set the drive-type number in the System Setup program, highlight the appropriate
drive option (Primary Drive 0 or Primary Drive 1) and type the correct drive-type num-
ber. If you prefer, you can press the right- or left-arrow key to increase or decrease,
respectively, the drive-type number until the correct one is displayed.
,I The Drive 0 and Drive 1 options display the following five parameters for each drive:
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Drive Type is the drive-type number for the selected hard-disk drive.
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Capacity (automatically calculated by the system) indicates the number of
millions of bytes of storage provided by the drive.
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Cylinders is the number of logical cylinders.
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Heads indicates the number of logical heads in the drive.
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Sectors is the number of logical sectors per track.
If none of the supported drive types match the parameters of your new drive, you can
enter your own parameters. To do so, highlight the Drive 0 option and type
u to dis-
play User 1. You can then use the right- or left-arrow key to switch between the User 1
and User 2
settings (only two user-defined drive types are allowed). Then press the
key to highlight each of the parameter fields in succession, and enter the
appropriate number for each field.
NOTE: The User 1 and User 2 drive types can be used for both the Primary and Second-
ary Drive 0 and Drive 1 options. However, if you select the User 1 or User 2 drive type,
you may not obtain optimum hard-disk drive performance. Also, the User 1 and User 2
drive types cannot be used for hard-disk drives greater than 528 megabytes (MB) in
capacity.
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Hard-Disk Drive Sequence lists installed adapter cards and devices in the order they
will be initialized. The first hard-disk drive in the list becomes the bootable
drive C.
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Boot Sequence enables you to set the order of the devices from which the system
attempts to boot.
The term boot refers to the system’s start-up procedure. When turned on, the
system “bootstraps” itself into an operational state by loading into memory a
small program, which in turn loads the necessary operating system. Boot
Sequence
tells the system where to look for the files that it needs to load.