Installation Guide - Overcoming BIOS Limitations
Refer to the Enhanced IDE Hard Disk Drive User's Guide Supplement for
important information on configuration jumper settings that might help the computer overcome BIOS limitations
in order to recognize the full capacity of the drive.
The basic input and output system (BIOS) manages communication between the processor and the input-output devices.
The computer BIOS might contain limitations that can keep the computer from recognizing the full capacity of the drive
or from recognizing the large drive at all.
To solve BIOS limitations in IBM computers, install Disk Manager using instructions given in Partitioning and Formatting Using Disk Manager
The following procedures contain steps to solve most known BIOS limitations in non-IBM computers.
Based on BIOS type, number of IDE controllers, and number of IDE devices in the computer, the configuration-setup program displays options for up to four devices. Normally, drives 1 and 2 are connected to the primary IDE port and drives 3 and 4 are connected to the secondary IDE port.
If you have two IDE ports, drives 1 and 3 are the master
devices and drives 2 and 4 are the slave devices.
If you have one IDE controller, drive 1 is the master device
and drive 2 is the slave device.
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