Storage

General
Drive Type
Diskette

External Diskette
Internal Diskette Drive
Internal Hard-Disk Drive

General
Specify the hard-disk drives time-out period in the System Setup program. Depending on the option chosen, the hard-disk drives motor spins down to conserve power unless it is accessed again before the time-out has expired.
TIME-OUT options are from 15 seconds to 30 minutes unless DISABLED.

Drive Type
The drive parameters required are CYLINDERS, LOGICAL HEADS, PRECOMPENSATION CYLINDER (no effect on IDE or ESDI drives), LANDING ZONE CYLINDER and NUMBER OF SECTORS.

NOTE: Be aware that the hard-disk drive in the notebooks are not field-replaceable units.

Diskette
Drive A
3.5-inch internal diskette drive; capability of adding an external drive via the parallel port. An external drive connected to the parallel port is automatically detected by the computer. (See Parallel Port.)
DRIVE A: in System Setup allows the user to choose whether the INTERNAL drive or the EXTERNAL drive is recognized as drive A. The second drive (if any) is automatically designated as drive B.