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Marathon 810 (ST9816AG)

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ATA Interface Drive

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Installation Guide

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Summary of Contents for ST9816AG

Page 1: ...Marathon 810 ST9816AG ATA Interface Drive Installation Guide...

Page 2: ...ecifications No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without written permission from Seagate Technology Inc Contents Read before you begin 1 Hardware Configuration 2 Configuring the...

Page 3: ...uch the I O connector pins or the circuit board Drive handling The drive is extremely fragile handle it with care Do not attach labels to any part of the drive Inspection Observing the static discharg...

Page 4: ...ap Wear the grounded wrist strap throughout the installation procedure 2 Installmaster slave jumpers In a two drive system you need to designate one drive as the master or drive 0 and the other drive...

Page 5: ...laptop and notebook computers In some cases open ing the case may void your warranty 4 Connect the 44 pin interface power cable Match pin 1 of the cable to pin 1 of the interface connectors on the dri...

Page 6: ...A C Drive is master slave may be detected using DASP signal Drive is master Seagate slave drive present Drive is slave Seagate master drive present Use CSEL pin grounding to differentiate master from...

Page 7: ...he mounting holes in your computer do not line up with the mounting holes on the drive your computer may not be MCC compatible Software and system configuration About Disk Manager software Many DOS ba...

Page 8: ...minutes Transferring the Disk Manager software Note Before you can transfer your Disk Manager software you must set all jumpers attach all cables and mount your drive in the computer as described on p...

Page 9: ...tware diskette to access the full capacity of your drive Configuring your system BIOS 1 Restart your computer again from a bootable diskette and enter your system setup program as described previously...

Page 10: ...start Disk Manager 3 Follow the instructions on your computer screen From the main menu select E asy Disk Installation and press ENTER 4 At this point Disk Manager lists all the ATA hard drives that i...

Page 11: ...ediately press the space bar 3 Insert your boot diskette and press the space bar again to finish booting from the diskette Disk Manager online manual The Disk Manager program contains an extensive onl...

Page 12: ...ns that behave as separate logical drives labeled C D E etc You can also set up the entire disc as a single partition 1 Restart your computer Start the computer using a bootable diskette that contains...

Page 13: ...ry repeat this procedure to format other new drive partitions you have created Consult your DOS manual for FORMAT command options Note If you are formatting the drive partition that will be used to bo...

Page 14: ...tion Check the documen tation for your drive host adapter and computer to confirm that all jumpers are set appropriately Check all cables Make sure that all cables are securely connected Printed circu...

Page 15: ...address conflicts you can resolve the conflict by changing the I O address of the peripheral that appears to cause the conflict Check the power supply The output of your power supply may not be suffic...

Page 16: ...rive cablesagain Verify the BIOS drive type Check for I O address conflicts Try a warm boot Press CTRL ALT and DELETE simultaneously to reboot the computer without turning off the power If a warm boot...

Page 17: ...artitions are formatted use the system setup program to turn virus protection on again During the FDISK program the computer hangs or fails to create or save the partition record Check all cables The...

Page 18: ...bad sectors During high level formatting the drive does not format to full usable capacity Verify the BIOS drive type Your drive s formatted capacity is limited to the capacity of the BIOS geometry y...

Page 19: ...s You may havetodisable thisfeature to restartWindows Seagate provides a replacement32 bitdriverfor Windows SEG32BIT 386 which does support high capacity disc drives To install this driver 1 Start Win...

Page 20: ...ite Long commands Depending on the drive type your system BIOS may look for 4 bytes of ECC If your system BIOS expects 4 bytes of ECCand thedrive suppliesa different number of bytes some drive diagnos...

Page 21: ...a modem you can access documentation drive speci fications and jumper settings for Seagate s entire product line You can also download software for installing and analyzing your drive SeaBOARD is ava...

Page 22: ...acific time Monday through Friday SeaFONE provides recorded technical information on se lected Seagate products while you are on hold You can access these recordings 24 hours daily Before calling note...

Page 23: ...te drives is available on the internet from Seagate s World Wide Web home page http www seagate com or Seagate s ftp server ftp ftp seagate com The ftp server contains information similar to that foun...

Page 24: ...ing a drive in an unapproved container voids the warranty Call your authorized Seagate distributor to purchase additional boxes Figure 2 shows a drive in an approved single pack box with all necessary...

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Page 28: ...Seagate Technology Inc 920 Disc Drive Scotts Valley CA 95066 USA Publication Number 36336 201 February 1996 Printed in USA...