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ATA Interface Drive
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Installation Guide
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Contents Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Before you begin... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Configuring the drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Attaching the cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Mounting the drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Transferring the software from the drive . . . . . . . . . 11
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Medalist 1270 Installation Guide, July 1995 1 Introduction ® Thank you for choosing a Seagate drive. The purpose of this guide is to assist you with installing your new hard drive. Its organization outlines the complete installation process from han- dling the drive and drive application in Before you begin... to offering troubleshooting suggestions and technical support infor- mation. The topics discusses are: • Handling your drive (see Before you begin...) • Configuring the drive • Attaching
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2 Medalist 1270 Installation Guide, July 1995 Drive features Feature ST31270A Formatted Capacity 1,282.8 Mbytes Cylinders 2,485 Heads 16 Sectors 63 Average seek time 12 msec Cache (segmented) 256 Kbytes Spindle speed 4,500 RPM Internal transfer rate (Mbits per sec max.) 29.6 to 57.2 1 External transfer rate 16.6 (Mbytes per sec max.) LBA Supported Multiple block read/write Supported PIO modes 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 Multiword DMA modes 0, 1, 2 Power-management Supported 1. To achieve the maximum transfer
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Medalist 1270 Installation Guide, July 1995 3 Before you begin... Note. Throughout this manual the Medalist 1270 is referred to by its model number, ST31270A. Drive handling. Your drive is vulnerable to damage from rough handling and static discharge. Do not drop your drive. Do not remove the seals and labels on the drive. The drive warranty is voided if the seals and labels are removed. Static discharge. Your drive contains components that can be damaged by static discharge. Static damage can
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4 Medalist 1270 Installation Guide, July 1995 facilities authorized to repair Seagate drives. Seagate does not sanction any third-party repair facilities. Application. Your Seagate drive is designed for IBM AT and compatible personal computers. It uses the ATA interface. It is intended for use with UL-listed computers or similar products. Sicherheitsanleitung 1. Das Gerrät ist ein Einbaugerät, das für eine maximale Umge- bungstemperatur von 55°C vorgesehen ist. 2. Zur Befestigung des Laufwerks
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Medalist 1270 Installation Guide, July 1995 5 Warning. Turn off the computer before you remove its cover. Turn off the power before you install or remove any adapter card or the drive. Caution. Special training or tools may be required to service laptop computers. Removing the cover may void your warranty. Review the terms and conditions of your warranty before removing the cover. Configuring the drive Required materials: • 0.100-inch jumper connectors (supplied as spare jumpers) Your Seagate d
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6 Medalist 1270 Installation Guide, July 1995 J8. Options jumper block J8 pin 1 J1. Interface connector pin 1 J3. Standard power connector Circuit board +5V +5V return +12V return +12V Figure 1. Drive connectors 1 2 3 4
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Medalist 1270 Installation Guide, July 1995 7 Options jumper block (J8) 13 11 9 7 5 3 1 Circuit board 14 12 10 8 6 4 2 side up Spares One drive only Drive is master; slave is present Drive is slave when another drive is present; Master/slave timing protocol. Makes the drive compat- ible with some drives as the slave. Dual-drive emulation Cannot be used with cable select. Cannot be used with a second, physical drive. Cable select Remote LED connection pin 13 (–), pin 14 (+) F
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8 Medalist 1270 Installation Guide, July 1995 Slave. Use this configuration if the drive is the second drive in the system. The slave is drive 1 in the System Setup record. Master/slave timing protocol. This protocol involves the communication between the computer and the disc drives during the power-on cycle only. The computer queries the master drive for the status of both drives. The slave must report its status to the master within a certain time period. If it does not respond in time or if
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Medalist 1270 Installation Guide, July 1995 9 Attaching the cables Required materials: • A 40-conductor interface cable with a 40-pin, female interface connector for each drive you want to attach. • A four-conductor power-supply cable. Note. To ensure the integrity of your data, use a nonshielded cable with a maximum length of 18 inches (46 centimeters). This section refers to Figure 1 on page 6. 1. Attach the interface cable. Pin 1 on the drive must align with pin 1 of the hard-disc controller
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10 Medalist 1270 Installation Guide, July 1995 Mounting the drive Required materials: • Four 6-32 UNC-2A screws (not included) The drive fits in the standard 3.5-inch bay and can be mounted in any orientation. Secure the drive with four mounting screws not more than 6 full turns (0.20 inches) into the drive frame (see Figure 3). Position the drive so that the cables are not strained or crimped. Caution. To prevent drive mounting-hole damage, use only the type of screws specified. This completes
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Medalist 1270 Installation Guide, July 1995 11 Transferring the software from the drive Required materials: • Diskette Drive A • A blank diskette that can be used in Drive A • A bootable diskette with the Format command Recent developments in drive technology have pushed drive capacities beyond the limit that many older computers using DOS can address. Seagate provides software solutions that can allow your computer to surpass the address limit and access the full capacity of your drive. The sof
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12 Medalist 1270 Installation Guide, July 1995 3. Insert the blank diskette. Press ENTER. When the format is complete, you can transfer the installation software files to the diskette. To transfer the software files: 1. Boot the computer with the diskette to which you want to transfer the software files. 2. Enter the System Setup. (Refer to your computer user’s guide. System Setup may be called Setup, BIOS Setup or CMOS Setup.) If your computer uses an automatic setup system, go to step 5. 3. Fi
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Medalist 1270 Installation Guide, July 1995 13 Determining if your BIOS accepts more than 528 Mbytes The following suggestions can help you to determine whether your BIOS limits the drive capacity to 528 Mbytes. • If you are using a 286 or 386 computer, the native BIOS does not recognize more than 528 Mbytes. • If the copyright date of the BIOS is earlier than 1994, it probably will not recognize more than 528 Mbytes. The BIOS copyright date, manufacturer and version number appear on your scree
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14 Medalist 1270 Installation Guide, July 1995 try values allowed by the BIOS, which limits the capacity of each logical drive to 528 Mbytes. Configuring the computer Configuring the computer involves updating the computer’s Sys- tem Setup records with the new drive’s translation geometry (cylinder, head and sector information) and partitioning and for- matting the drive. The translation geometry is kept on the CMOS chip and is used by the BIOS to assign locations for the data on the drive. Many
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Medalist 1270 Installation Guide, July 1995 15 Features option that appears in the dialog box when the format is complete allows you to disable Maximum Overdrive. EZ-Drive is easy and safe to use. You can choose a fully-auto- matic installation, which puts a single partition on the drive, or you can install the drive with multiple partitions and other custom features. Online help is provided for selected topics when you press F1. Online help is also available in the main menu as Information Help
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16 Medalist 1270 Installation Guide, July 1995 of conventional memory are not free when these virus programs inspect conventional memory, they assume a virus is present and clean and restore the memory. If this happens, information about the EZ-Drive in- stalled drive is destroyed, and the drive cannot be identified by the computer. Do not use these programs. Note. The Seagate version of EZ-Drive cannot install a non-Sea- gate drive without a Seagate drive present. 1. Boot your computer with th
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Medalist 1270 Installation Guide, July 1995 17 6. When the format is complete, the Options dialog box appears. We want to call your attention to two of the options in particular: Create Recovery Disk and Change Install Features. Create Recovery Disk allows you to save the boot information EZ-Drive uses to load your drive. You can use this diskette to restore the EZ-Drive boot information on Drive C if it is cor- rupted and you cannot access the drive. Use a blank diskette to create the recovery
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18 Medalist 1270 Installation Guide, July 1995 Booting with a diskette after EZ-Drive is installed To boot your computer with a diskette: 1. Boot the computer with the diskette-drive door open. 2. Press the CTRL key when the following message appears near the end of the boot sequence: Hold the CTRL key down to boot from a floppy 3. Insert the boot diskette. The computer boots to the diskette drive. Standard setup 1. Turn the computer on. 2. Enter System Setup. (Refer to your computer’s user’s
