Product Information Guide

EISA Series Tower

Hard Disk Drives

The following table lists the types of hard disk drives you can use in

your computer. Check this table and the manual that came with your

hard disk to find the correct type for the hard disk drive(s) installed

in your computer. Then select that type at the hard disk drive Type

prompt. If you do not find your drive type in the table, select User

defined and enter your drive’s parameters.

Hard disk drive types

(1) Miniscribe 8425F, Seagate ST125

(2) for Seagate (formerly CDC Imprimis) default setting (34 sectors per track)

(3) Micropolis 1325. Atasi 3085. Lanstor Lan64 Maxtor XT1085, Newbury NDR1085

(4) Micropolis 1323A Miniscribe 3035, Microscience HH1050. Seagate ST4053

(5) Epson IDE drives: 40MB (type 59), 100MB (type 60). 200MB (type 64)

(6) The BIOS translates the actual parameters for Cylinders. Heads,

and

Landing zone to these

values. The parameters listed in your drive's documentation may be the following:

Cylinders (1366), Heads (8),

and

Landing zone (1355).

Hard disk drive jumper settings

Jumper

HSP

C/D

DSP

ACT

One Hard Disk

Two Hard disk

Two hard disk

drive

drives: master

drives: slave

(primary)

;

(secondary)

X = jumper installed

- = no jumper installed

Note: If you install two 200MB hard disk drives, install one jumper

from each drive in the two jumper positions on the master drive. Do

not instaIl any jumpers on the slave drive.

The folIowing illustration shows the location of the jumpers on the

optimal Epson 200MB IDE hard disk drive.

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