Product manual

Installation
3-22 Maxtor MaXLine Plus II 250GB AT
3.8.3 Operating system limitations
Most popular operating systems available today have additional limitations which
affect the use of large capacity drives. However, these limitations can not be
corrected on the BIOS and it is up to the operating system manufacturers to release
improved versions to address these problems.
DOS and Windows 95 use a File Allocation Table (FAT) size of 16 bits which will
only support partitions up to 2.1 GB. Windows 95 OSR2, Windows 98, and
Windows ME use a FAT size of 32 bits, allowing partitions of up to 2.2 terrabytes.
Windows NT, 2000, and XP Use NTFS, which allows partition sizes up to 16
terrabytes.
3.9 SYSTEM STARTUP AND OPERATION
Once you have installed the MaXLine Plus II 250GB 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.
The SETUP program allows you to enter the types of optional hardware installed—
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.
During the AT system CMOS setup, you must enter the drive type for the MaXLine
Plus II 250GB 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.
You can choose any drive type that does not exceed the capacity of the drive. Table
3-3 gives the logical parameters that provide the maximum capacity on the MaXLine
Plus II 250GB AT family of hard disk drives.