Dell OptiPlex GX1p - Manual (Page 17)

After you update the System Setup options, reboot the system.
15. Partition and logically format your drive, as described in " Partitioning and Logically Formatting Your EIDE Hard-Disk Drive ,"
before proceeding to the next step.
16. Run the Hard-Disk Drive(s) Test Group in the Dell Diagnostics to verify that the new hard-disk drive is operating properly.
See your Diagnostics and Troubleshooting Guide for information on running the Dell Diagnostics and troubleshooting any problems that
may occur.
17. If the drive you just installed is the primary drive, install the operating system on the hard-disk drive.
Refer to the documentation that came with the operating system.
Partitioning and Logically Formatting Your EIDE Hard-Disk Drive
EIDE hard-disk drives must be physically formatted, partitioned, and logically formatted before they can be used to store data. Every hard-disk
drive from Dell is physically formatted before it is sent to you.
To partition and logically format your hard-disk drive, use the program(s) offered by your operating system.
For MS-DOS, use the fdisk and format commands to perform these procedures. The fdisk and format commands are described in the MS-
DOS reference documentation.
For the OS/2 ® operating system, see the discussion on partitioning and logical formatting in the documentation that came with the operating
system.
For Windows NT, see the discussion on partitioning and logical formatting in the documentation that came with the operating system.
For the UNIX ® operating system, refer to your UNIX documentation.
Installing SCSI Devices
To use SCSI devices in your Dell computer, you must have a SCSI host adapter card, which comes with its own SCSI cable. This cable can be
used to attach a variety of SCSI devices (hard-disk drives, tape drives, and so on). The SCSI host adapter configures the devices attached to it as
one subsystem, not as independent devices.
Although SCSI devices are installed essentially the same way as other devices, their configuration requirements are different.
SCSI Configuration Guidelines
For details on configuring your SCSI subsystem, refer to the documentation that came with your SCSI devices and/or your host adapter card. The
following subsections offer some general guidelines.
SCSI ID Numbers
Each device attached to a SCSI host adapter card, as well as the card itself, must have a unique SCSI ID number from 0 to 7. When SCSI devices
are shipped from Dell, the default SCSI ID numbers are assigned as follows:
l
A SCSI host adapter card is configured as SCSI ID 7 (typically the default ID for a host adapter card).
l A SCSI tape drive or digital audio tape (DAT) drive is configured as SCSI ID 6 (typically the default ID number for a tape drive).
l A SCSI CD-ROM drive is configured as SCSI ID 5.
l
SCSI hard-disk drives are usually configured as SCSI ID 0. (The drive used to boot your system should always be configured as SCSI ID 0.)
NOTE: On systems with hard-disk drives larger than 2 gigabytes (GB), create a primary partition of 2 GB and divide the remaining
capacity into partitions of 2 GB or less. For example, a system with a 2.5-GB hard-disk drive would have a primary partition of 2 GB
(drive C) and a second partition of 500 megabytes (MB) (drive D).
Hard-disk drives must be partitioned this way because MS-DOS®-based operating systems (including Microsoft® Windows NT® when
you use a file allocation table [FAT] 16 file system) do not support drive partitions larger than 2 GB.
NOTICE: If you format your hard-disk drive under the OS/2 High Performance File System (HPFS), you cannot reformat the drive for
MS-DOS without losing all HPFS data. See your OS/2 documentation for details.
NOTICE: If you format your hard-disk drive under the Windows NT File System (NTFS), you cannot reformat the drive for MS-DOS
without losing all NTFS data. See your Windows NT documentation for details.