Installation
Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive 3-17
3.8 SYSTEM STARTUP AND OPERATION
Once you have installed the DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT hard disk drive, and
adapter board (if required) in the host system, you are ready to partition and format
the drive for operation. To set up the drive correctly, follow these steps:
1. Power on the system.
2. Run the SETUP program. This is generally on a Diagnostics or Utilities disk,
or within the system’s BIOS. Some system BIOS have an auto-detecting
feature making SETUP unnecessary.
3. Enter the appropriate parameters.
Note: The SETUP program allows you to enter the types of optional hardware in-
stalled—such as the hard disk drive type, the floppy disk drive capacity, and
the display adapter type. The system’s BIOS uses this information to initialize
the system when the power is switched on. For instructions on how to use
the SETUP program, refer to the system manual for your PC.
Note: During the AT system CMOS setup, you must enter the drive type for the
DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT hard disk drives. The drive supports the
translation of its physical drive geometry parameters such as cylinders, heads,
and sectors per track to a logical addressing mode. The drive can work with
different BIOS drive-type tables of the various host systems.
Note: You can choose any drive type that does not exceed the capacity of the drive.
Table 3-4 gives the logical parameters that provide the maximum capacity on
the DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT family of hard disk drives.
Table 3-4
Logical Addressing Format
4. Boot the system using the operating system installation disk—for example, MS-
DOS—then follow the installation instructions in the operating system manual.
Model Interface CYL HD SPT Max LBA Capacity
6G080L0 ATA/133 16,383 16 63 156,301,488 80GB
6G160P0 ATA/133 16,383 16 63 312,581,808 160GB
