Fdisk And Format - IBM Deskstar 40GV Installation And Reference Manual
3.5 inch ata/ide hard disk drive
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- Installation and reference manual (72 pages) ,
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- Specifications (212 pages)
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Slave
If the IBM Deskstar is the Slave drive on a two-drive cable, set the jumpers for Slave.
Cable Select
The 40-pin, 80-conductor ATA/IDE cable included with your drive is constructed using the Cable
Select configuration. If your motherboard or controller card supports Cable Select, you can set
the drive address jumper to Cable Select. Attach the drive to the black connector for Master or
the gray connector for Slave. Attach the blue connector to the system ATA/IDE port on the
motherboard or controller card.
Slave Present (Device 0 Forcing Device 1 Present )
If your Slave drive is an older drive that may not signal its presence on the bus, set the jumpers
on your Master drive to Slave Present.
2/32 GB Clip
For a DJNA model drive:
If your BIOS is incompatible with cylinder values higher than 4,096 cylinders, the 2/32 GB clip
jumper truncates the cylinder and LBA count of your drive to 4,096 cylinders (2 GB capacity).
For a DTLA or DPTA model drive with a capacity lower than 34GB:
If your BIOS is incompatible with cylinder values higher than 4,096 cylinders, the 2/32 GB clip
jumper truncates the cylinder count of your drive to 4,096 cylinders (2 GB capacity). The LBA
value of the drive is unchanged.
For a drive with a capacity of 34GB or higher:
If your BIOS is incompatible with LBA values higher than 66,055,248 sectors, the 2/32
GB clip jumper truncates the LBA value to 66,055,248 sectors (32 GB capacity).
16 Head/15Head
The default configuration of the drive is 16 heads. Some systems may require the drive
to be jumpered to 15 heads. This does not reduce the capacity of the drive. See the
Frequently Asked Question section of this manual for more information.
Auto Spin Disable
This jumper allows the drive to be powered up in Standby mode.
FDISK and format
Important: If you have already used IBM Disk Manager 2000 to partition and format your drive, FDISK and
Format are not required.
Partitioning with FDISK.EXE
You may choose FDISK.EXE or similar partitioning software from your operating system to
partition your hard disk drive. Follow the instructions provided with your operating system to
partition the hard disk drive.
Note: If your drive is larger than 8.4GB and FDISK.EXE recognizes only 8.4GB of the full capacity, your
BIOS may not be supporting Interrupt 13 Extensions. Refer to the section entitled Set the BIOS/CMOS in
the appropriate installation option.
Formatting with FORMAT.COM
Follow the instructions provided with your operating system to format the hard disk drive.
Formatting will verify the hard disk media and create File Allocation Tables for the partition.
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