Fireball CR
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Jumper Settings
Stand Alone ON OFF X OFF
Master with Slave Present ON OFF X OFF
Slave to Master OFF OFF X OFF
Cable Select OFF ON X OFF
DS CS PK Rsvd
X = PK is a Parking position. The presence or absence of this jumper has no effect on the drive. Labeling
may indicate to place this jumper when configuring as a slave. This is to provide for retention of the jumper
in the event that it is needed later.
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Jumper Locations
The Maxtor® Fireball™ CR disk drive has only one location where user configurable jumpers are found. The
jumper block is incorporated into the IDE / ATA cable connector. Using the jumper pins you can establish
the drive Master/Slave configuration.
The Maxtor Fireball CR 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 CR
disk drive. Both base 2 and base 10 capacity values are displayed.
4.3 GB 14848 9 63 4,111 MB 4,310 MB
6.4 GB 13328 15 63 6,150 MB 6,449 MB
8.4 GB 16383 16 63 8,064 MB 8,455 MB
13.0 GB 25228 16 63 12,417 MB 13,020 MB
Cylinders Heads Sectors Base 2 Capacity Base 10 Capacity
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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 special BIOS support is required.
Hard drives greater than 8.4GB in capacity may be restricted to 8.4GB (or less) due to system BIOS limitations,
operating system limitations, or both. Check with your system manufacturer to determine if your BIOS supports
the correct extensions for hard drives greater than 8.4GB.
In order to achieve the Ultra ATA/66 transfer speed, you must have a system and BIOS that will support Ultra
ATA/66. The correct drivers must be loaded, and an Ultra ATA specific data cable must be used. The Ultra ATA
cables use the Cable Select method rather than a master / slave scheme, so the drive must be set with a jumper 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
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