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If you have one or more SCSI hard disks installed in your system,
you do not need to enter their specifications here. SCSI drives oper
ate using device drivers and are not supported directly by any cur
rent PC BIOS. If your mainboard has the SCSI controller card option,
and you will use it, see the SCSI instructions that follow later in this
section. If you have some other SCSI controller, follow the instruc
tions that came with it on how to install any required SCSI driver.
The are four hard disks listed "Primary Master", "Primary Slave"
"Secondary Master" and "Secondary Slave". For each ГОЕ channel,
the first device is the 'master' and the second device the 'slave'.
To enter the specifications for an MFM or ESDI hard disk drive,
you must first select a 'type'. You can select the "User" option and
enter the specifications yourself manually or there are 45 predefined
drive specifications which you can look through to see if the specifi
cations for your drive are assigned a type number. Do this by using
the
ter the drive letter.
For an IDE hard drive, you should use the auto-detection utility
described later to enter the drive specifications automatically. If you
want to do this, leave the drive set to "None". You can enter the speci
fications yourself manually by using the User option if you want to.
There are six categories of information you must enter: "Cyls"
(number of cylinders), "Heads" (number of read/write heads),
"Precomp" (write precompensation), "LandZ" (landing zone), "Sec
tor" (number of sectors) and "Mode". The "Size" entry is automati
cally determined by the other specifications. Your hard disk vendor's
or system manufacturer's docximentation should provide you widv
the drive specifications. If you have an IDE drive, vmless your drive
is already formatted with specifications different from those detected
by the auto-detection utility, the easiest thing to do is use the auto
detection feature to enter the drive specifications.
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