Hard Drive Installation

©Richard L. GoldmanRevised - January 4, 2001

Plug-and-Play BIOS

• A technology that automatically selects and sets IRQ’s, I/O ports, and DMA channels for expansion cards added to a system.

• PnP is composed of:– Plug-and-Play BIOS

• For installed boot cards - reads data from ESCD and boots the system• For new boot cards – reads cards, checks the ESCD and, assigns a Card

Select Number (CSN) and configures boot cards.

– Extended System Configuration Data (ESCD)• Area of CMOS where PnP configuration data is stored.

– Plug-and-Play routines in the operating system• Configures non-boot cards (or boot cards that the PnP BIOS can’t

configure)

PnP Device ID’s

• All PnP devices have a unique ID.– A 3 letter vendor ID followed by a 4 number

product ID.– Example: ABC1234

• Many common devices have been assigned reserved ID by Microsoft with a vendor ID of “PNP”.

BIOS Error Messages

• Errors detected by the BIOS will be indicated by:– Text messages on the screen– Beep codes form the system speaker– Hexadecimal error codes to I/O port 80

• A hexadecimal code is displayed on a POST-code card of the POST test in progress

Installing a Hard Drive

1. Record Hard Drive DataManufacturer

Model

Serial Number

Vendor, Date of Purchase, PO Number

Hard drive parameters-Size, etc.

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2. Set JumpersMaster/Slave/Stand Alone - IDE Drive

SCSI #/Termination - SCSI Drive

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3. Physically install hard driveUse 4 screws

(Caution - do not switch metric/English screws)– English into Drive

– Metric in HDD cages, CD-ROMs, brackets, etc

(Caution – do not use long screws)

Connect Data Cable

Connect Power Cable

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4. Configure CMOS SettingSet to Auto/Auto if possible

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5. Partition Hard DriveUse Fdisk, Manufacturer’s OS utility,

PartitionMagic, etc.

(adds MBR)

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6. Format each partition with appropriate file system(adds Root Directory and 2 FAT’s)

FAT 16 (2GB max.)

FAT 32 (2TB max.)

NTFS (15EB max.?)

(HPFS)

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7. Install operation system

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8. Install applications