Epson EQUITY 386SX/16 PLUS User Manual

Page 41

Advertising
background image

Hard disk drive types (continued)

Defining your own drive type

If the parameters for your hard disk (listed in its

documentation) do not match any of the types listed in the
table above, you can define your own type. Follow these
steps:

1.

With the cursor at the

Hard disk type

option, press

Page Up

or

Page Down

to scroll through the types until

you come to

47 = USER TYPE.

2.

Use the numeric keys to enter the appropriate values for

these parameters:

Cyln

= the number of cylinders on the disk.

Head

= the number of read/write heads in the drive.

WPcom

= the precompensation cylinder.

LZone

= the landing zone (the area on which the

computer parks the heads when you run the HDSIT

program).

Sec = the number of sectors on the disk.

Size = the total amount of storage capacity for the disk.

Running the Setup Program

2-7

Advertising