Seagate FIREBALL PLUS KA User Manual

Fireball Plus KA

Jumper Settings

Jumper Settings

Stand Alone (Default) 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.

*Note: Cable Select (CS) utilizes a special cable configuration where the drive setting (Master or Slave) is
determined by its position on the 40-pin ATA cable. In this type of configuration both drives will have their
jumper set to CS. Cable Select is utilized on some OEM systems and is typically required for systems utilizing
Ultra ATA/66. For Ultra ATA/66 compliant cables, the master drive is placed on the outside (end) cable
connector and the slave drive is placed on the intermediate cable connector.

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Fireball Plus KA

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Jumper Locations

The Maxtor® Fireball™ Plus KA disk drive has only one location where user configurable jumpers are found.
The jumper block is incorporated into the ATA / IDE cable connector. Using the jumper pins you can establish
the drive Master/Slave configuration.

The Maxtor Fireball Plus KA 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 Plus KA disk
drive. Both base 2 and base 10 capacity values are displayed.

Logical Cylinders 13,328 16,383 * 16,383 * 16,383 *

Logical Heads 15 16 16 16

Logical Sectors/Track 63 63 63 63

Total Logical Sectors 12,594,960 18,041,184 27,067,824 36,094,464

Base 10 Capacity 6,449 MB 9,237 MB 13,858 MB 18,480 MB

Base 2 Capacity 6,150 MB 8,809 MB 13,217 MB 17,624 MB

*Note: Default Logical Cylinder value is limited to 16,383 as per the ATA-4 specification. Capacity may be
restricted to 8.4GB (or less) due to system BIOS limitations. Check with your system manufacturer to determine if
your BIOS supports LBA mode for ATA hard drives greater than 8.4GB.

6.4 GB 9.1 GB 13.6 GB 18.2 GB

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