Hard Disk Drive Problems
A newly-installed hard disk
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performance
Make sure you have installed the drive correctly and check all
cable connections. Also, check the jumper settings on your
drive.
Check that you have installed the IDE drivers on your hard
disk (see Chapter 6). To take advantage of the local bus IDE
interface, your hard disk drive must support a 32-bit data path
that utilizes double-word I/O.
You see a hard disk
Run SETUP and check that your system is auto-sensing the
correct drive type. If auto-sensing is enabled and SETUP
displays information that does not match your drive, you may
need to define your own drive type. See Chapter 2 for setup
information.
Make sure the jumpers on the system board are set correctly.
Jumper J31 enables or disables the IDE hard disk drive
controller. See Chapter 4 for jumper information.
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If your drive was not configured, make sure you have
partitioned and formatted it correctly for your operating
system. See your operating system manual for instructions.
Also, make sure your hard disk drive has been physically
formatted by the manufacturer. (All Epson-supplied drives are
physically formatted at the factory.) If it has not been physically
formatted, use the format utility that came with the drive to
format it before you partition it or install the operating system.
7-8 Troubleshooting
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