User manual SEAGATE FIREBALL PLUS KX JUMPER SETTINGS

[. . . ] Fireball Plus KX Jumper Settings Jumper Settings DS Stand Alone (Default) Master with Slave Present Slave to Master Cable Select * ON ON OFF OFF CS OFF OFF OFF ON PK X X X X Rsvd OFF OFF OFF OFF X= PK is a Parking position. The presence or absence of this jumper has no effect on the drive. [. . . ] For Ultra ATA/66 compliant cables, the master drive is placed on the outside (end) cable connector and the slave drive is placed on the intermediate cable connector. 1 of 1 Fireball Plus KX fireball_plus_kx_jumper. pdf Jumper Locations The Maxtor® FireballTM Plus KX disk drive has only one location where user configurable jumpers are found. The jumper block is incorporated into the ATA / IDE cable connector. Using the jumper pins you can establish the drive Master/Slave configuration. The Maxtor Fireball Plu KX was developed by Quantum Corporation prior to its merger with Maxtor. BIOS Settings The following BIOS parameters are provided for customers needing to manually configure the Fireball Plus KX disk drive. Both base 2 and base 10 capacity values are displayed. 6. 8 GB Logical Cylinders Logical Heads Logical Sectors/Track Total Logical Sectors Base 10 Capacity Base 2 Capacity 14, 164 15 63 13, 385, 856 6, 853 MB 6, 535 MB 10. 2 GB 16, 383 * 16 63 20, 077, 014 10, 279 MB 9, 803 MB 13. 6 GB 16, 383 * 16 63 26, 771, 672 13, 707 MB 13, 072 MB 20. 5 GB 16, 383 * 16 63 40, 160, 988 20, 562 MB 19, 609 MB 27. 3 GB 16, 383 * 16 16 53, 550, 304 27, 417 MB 26, 147 MB *Note: Default Logical Cylinder value is limited to 16, 383 as per the ATA-4 specification. Capacity may be restricted to 8. 4GB (or less) due to system BIOS limitations. Drives greater than 8. 4GB in capacity require LBA support. Check with your system manufacturer to determine if your BIOS supports LBA mode for ATA hard drives greater than 8. 4GB. 2 of 2 Fireball Plus KX fireball_plus_kx_jumper. pdf Special Considerations Hard drives greater than 2. 1GB may need to be divided into multiple partitions / logical drives. MS-DOS versions 4. 0 through 6. 22 allow a maximum primary partition / logical drive size of 2. 1GB and are limited to 8. 4GB in physical drive capacity. The file systems supported by Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT are not restricted to the 8. 4GB physical drive limit, but LBA support in the system BIOS is required. [. . . ] The correct drivers must be loaded, and an Ultra ATA specific data cable must be used. The Ultra ATA cables use the Cable Select (CS) method rather than a master/slave scheme, so the drive must be jumpered to enable Cable Select. For Further Review: · · · · · · · · · · ATA Configuration Card (Includes Drive Mounting) ATA Installation Flowchart ATA Installation Guide for Windows NT ATA Installation Guide for Windows95/98 BIOS Support for logical cylinder values > 4095 DOS/Windows 95 logical drive limitations Knowledge Base Ultra ATA/66 Bus Interface Ultra ATA/66 Compatibility with Award BIOS Windows NT 4. 0 Capacity Issue 3 of 3 [. . . ]