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USING DISCWIZARD WHAT YOU NEED HANDLE WITH CARE!
DiscWizard is a revolutionary new Windows program that • Straight-edge and Phillips screwdrivers
Disc drives are extremely fragile. Do not drop or jar
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makes it easy to install your Seagate Medalist drive.
MEDALIST HARD DRIVE • Drive mounting screws your drive.
DiscWizard helps you configure your new drive and your com-
• An ATA host adapter and interface cable (max. length:
INSTALLATION GUIDE
puter. It analyzes your system, lets you sele
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other peripheral cards, one at a time, until the conflict reccurs. After you SEAGATE TECHNICAL SUPPORT SERVICES have isolated the source of the address conflict, you can resolve the conflict by changing the I/O address of the peripheral that appears to Non-ATA compatible slave jumper If you need assistance installing your drive, consult your dealer. Dealers Basic Troubleshooting cause the conflict. If your computer does not recognize your new drive as a master in a are familiar with their unique
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pin 1 USING DISCWIZARD DiscWizard is a revolutionary new Windows program that ® makes it easy to install your Seagate Medalist drive. MEDALIST HARD DRIVE DiscWizard helps you configure your new drive and your com- INSTALLATION GUIDE puter. It analyzes your system, lets you select various installa- tion options and creates customized step-by-step instructions. It also allows older computers to access the full capacity of Medalist 6540 (ST36540A) large hard drives. Medalist 5130 (ST35130A) You c
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WHAT YOU NEED HANDLE WITH CARE! • Straight-edge and Phillips screwdrivers Disc drives are extremely fragile. Do not drop or jar your drive. • Drive mounting screws • An ATA host adapter and interface cable (max. length: 18 inches) with enough connectors for your drives Keep the drive in its antistatic bag until you are ready • An unused drive power cable for your new drive to install it. • A bootable DOS system diskette (Seagate recommends using DOS Version 5.0 or later.) • If you are mounting
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2. CONFIGURING YOUR COMPUTER BIOS Settings Before you format or partition your new drive, you must con- Drive Cylinders Heads Sectors figure your computer’s BIOS so that the computer can recog- ST36540A nize your new drive. LBA addressing 840 240 63 1 Turn your computer on. As your computer starts up, watch CHS addressing 13,446 15 63 the screen for a message describing how to run the sys- Addressable sectors 12,706,470 tem setup program (sometimes called BIOS or CMOS ST35130A setup). This is us
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ADDRESSING DRIVE-CAPACITY LIMITATIONS Partition-size limit: DOS/Windows and Windows 95 cannot Some DOS-based computers and operating systems are not access drive partitions larger than 2.147 Gbytes. You can designed to accommodate large-capacity hard disc drives. The overcome this limitation using the Disk Manager software or three most common system limitations are listed below, along the DOS FDISK command to divide your drive into several with methods for overcoming these limitations. See you
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Non-ATA compatible slave jumper Basic Troubleshooting If your computer does not recognize your new drive as a master in a If you have installed your drive and it does not function properly, perform two-drive system, the slave drive may not be ATA-compatible. You may the following basic checks: be able to solve this problem by installing jumpers on pins 5 and 6 and on pins 7 and 8, as shown in the illustration below. Warning. Always turn off the computer before Cable Select Jumper changing jumpe
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other peripheral cards, one at a time, until the conflict reccurs. After you SEAGATE TECHNICAL SUPPORT SERVICES have isolated the source of the address conflict, you can resolve the conflict by changing the I/O address of the peripheral that appears to If you need assistance installing your drive, consult your dealer. Dealers cause the conflict. are familiar with their unique system configurations and can help you If Disk Manager has installed the DDO on your hard drive and you have • with syste
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pg y , , below. This causes the drive to appear to your BIOS as having a capacity Windows 95, Windows NT 3.51, Window NT 3.50 (requires DM upgrade of 2.1 Gbytes. drivers), OS/2 V3.0 (Warp full pack), and OS/2 V2.0–3.0 (requires DM upgrade drivers). Before you install a non-DOS operating system on the drive, install DOS and Disk Manager and make sure that the drive is bootable. Instructions for running the dynamic drive overlay with other operating systems are 24 6 8 Alternate capacity available
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py gg Direct-Support Services Caution. If you change the drive-type values in the ! Seagate Technical Support system setup program, you must partition and For one-on-one help, you can talk to a technical support specialist during format the drive again. This erases data on the drive. local business hours. Before calling, note your system configuration and If you have partitioned the drive into individual logical drives, you may • drive model number (STxxxxxx). need to make the partitions smalle
