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Medalist SL Family

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ATA Interface Drives

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Installation Guide

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Summary of Contents for MEDALIST 1080SL

Page 1: ... Medalist SL Family 540sl 851sl 1080sl 1270sl ATA Interface Drives Installation Guide ...

Page 2: ...ge without notice product offerings or specifications No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without written permission from Seagate Technology Inc Contents Introduction 1 Before you begin 3 Configuring the drive 5 Attaching the cables 8 Mounting the drive 10 Transferring the software from the drive 11 Configuring the computer 13 Determining whether your BIOS accepts more than 5...

Page 3: ...d a 32 bit disk access driver for Windows SEG32BIT 386 that allows the computer to surpass the 528 Mbyte barrier when it is imposed The software is stored on the drive and must be transferred to a diskette in Drive A before you partition and format the drive A program called Seamove is provided to make the transfer easy We hope your installation goes smoothly but if complications arise a list of c...

Page 4: ...second max Average sustained transfer rate 3 51 Mbytes per second LBA Supported Multiple block read write Supported PIO modes 0 1 2 3 4 Multiword DMA 0 1 2 Power management Supported Data streaming Supported 1 To achieve optimal performance your computer must support PIO mode 4 or multiword DMA mode 2 If these modes are not supported you can upgrade your system with a host adapter that supports th...

Page 5: ...ents that can be damaged by static discharge Static damage can be cumulative and may not manifest immediately Observe these precautions Ground yourself before handling the drive Wear a ground strap that is properly connected to earth ground or touch the metal of a power supply that is plugged into a wall outlet while handling the drive Keep the drive in its antistatic bag until you are ready to in...

Page 6: ...s Sicherheitsanleitung 1 Das Gerrät ist ein Einbaugerät das für eine maximale Umge bungstemperatur von 55 C vorgesehen ist 2 Zur Befestigung des Laufwerks werden 4 Schrauben 6 32 UNC 2A benötigt Bei seitlicherBefestigung darfdie maximale Länge der Schrauben im Chassis nicht mehr als 3 3 mm und bei Befestigung an der Unterseite nicht mehr als 5 08 mm betragen 3 Als Versorgungsspannugen werden benöt...

Page 7: ... settings are shown in Figure 2 on page 7 You can configure the drive For one or two drive operation To be the master or slave drive To operate as the master with drives that use a different master slave timing protocol For computers that use cable select To use a remote drive activity LED To configure the drive attach a jumper to the pins on the options jumperblockfor thedesired option The config...

Page 8: ... your system The master drive is Drive 0 in the System Setup record Slave Use this configuration if the drive is the second drive in the system The slave is Drive 1 in the System Setup record Options jumper block pin 1 pin 1 Standard power connector 1 2 3 4 Circuit board Interface connector 5V 5Vreturn 12Vreturn 12V Figure 1 Drive connectors 6 Medalist SL Family Installation Guide November 1995 ...

Page 9: ...present Drive is slave when another drive is master Cable select Remote LED connection pin 11 pin 12 Spares 12 11 Master slave timing protocol Drive waits up to 30 seconds for slave to respond Figure 2 Options jumper block settings Medalist SL Family Installation Guide November 1995 7 ...

Page 10: ...user s manual Remote LED Place the ground wire side of the remote drive ac tivity LED connector usually the black wire on pin 11 and the other side on pin 12 of the options jumper block The LED may be damaged if the cable is attached incorrectly Attaching the cables Required materials A four conductor power supply cable A 40 conductor interface cable with a 40 pin female interface connector for ea...

Page 11: ...r connec tor on the motherboard or host adapter see your system user s guide or host adapter user s guide to determine the location of pin 1 Make sure that pin 1 is aligned with pin 1 on the drive Cable select installation If your computer uses cable select for connection refer to its user s guide to determine which interface connector is used for the master and which is used for the slave 2 Attac...

Page 12: ...e drive so that the cables are not strained or crimped Secure it with four mounting screws not more than 6 full turns 0 20 inches into the drive frame see Figure 4 Caution To prevent drive mounting hole damage use only the type of screws specified This completes the hardware installation Figure 4 Mounting holes 10 Medalist SL Family Installation Guide November 1995 ...

Page 13: ... drive The files stored on the drive include EZ Drive This is drive installation software that enables com puters with BIOSs that restrict the hard disc capacity to 528 Mbytes to surpass the 528 Mbyte barrier SEG32BIT 386 This is a 32 bit disk access driver to replace the native Windows 32 bit disk access driver It extends 32 bit disk access support to drive capacities above 528 Mbytes multiple bl...

Page 14: ...ser 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 Find the hard disc configuration in the System Setup screen 4 Select drive type 2 for your new Seagate drive If your com puter does not offer drive type 2 use the following values 615 cylinders 4 heads and 17 sectors Note These are interim drive type values that allo...

Page 15: ...OS chip and is used by the BIOS to assign locations for the data on the drive Many older BIOSs place limits on the translation geometry parameter values that do not allow it to assign data locations for more than 528 Mbytes when DOS is used If your computer uses such a BIOS it cannot access the full capacity of your new drive This section covers the following issues involved with configuring your ...

Page 16: ...er instructions When the installation is complete typedir d for the new drive and check the number of bytes free The number shouldbe closeto the formatted capacity ofyour drive If the number is less than 528 Mbytes you need to consider some alternatives for surpassing the 528 Mbyte barrier Some alternatives are listed below Solutions for surpassing the 528 Mbyte barrier Use the free installation s...

Page 17: ...ich enables read write mul tiple in drives that have this feature The Change Installed Features option that appears in thedialog box whenthe format is complete allows you to disable Maximum Overdrive EZ Drive is easy and safe to use You can choose the fully auto matic installation which puts a single partition on the drive or you can install the drive with multiplepartitions ofequal size seepage 1...

Page 18: ...sent and clean and restore the memory If this happens information about the EZ Drive installed drive is de stroyed and the computer cannot identify the drive 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 the Seagate software diskette This is a precaution to ensure that the EZ Drive instal...

Page 19: ...his creates a single partition and formats the drive If you are installing the drive as Drive C EZ Drive automat ically writes the system files to the drive to make it bootable 6 When the format is complete the Options dialog box appears Select and read Important Information This instruction tells you how retain the use of the EZ Drive installed drive when you boot to Drive A 7 Select Reboot to re...

Page 20: ...tom installation option in the installation menu allows you to create up to nine partitions of equal size on the drive To create partitions of unequal size on your EZ Drive installed drive use the FDISK and FORMAT commands on a DOS diskette Refer to your DOS manual if you need assistance deleting creating and formatting partitions This instruction assumes you have already installed the drive with ...

Page 21: ...hile the computer reboots Press the CTRL key when the following message appears Hold the CTRL key down to boot from a floppy The message is very quick and you may need to boot several times before you succeed Some computers allow you to press the CTRL key early If you get an Invalid OS error message the computer has not found the EZ Drive installed drive and you must start the boot process again 2...

Page 22: ... BIOS Setup or CMOS Setup 3 Find the hard disc configuration in the System Setup screen 4 Select a drive type that matchesthe drivetranslation geometry for your drive as shown in the table Model CHKDSK Mbytes2 Translation geometry CMOS Setup Mbytes3 Cyl Heads Sectors per track ST5540A 541 9 1 050 16 63 517 ST5851A 854 6 1 656 16 63 815 ST51080A 1 083 8 2 100 16 63 1 034 ST51270A 1 282 4 2 485 16 6...

Page 23: ... you have completed setting the translation geometry for your drive save the values and exit System Setup Reboot your computer Partition and format the drive Partitioning and formatting the drive Before you can use your Seagate drive you must partition and format it In this guide we discuss partitioning and formatting your drive with DOS refer to your DOS user s guide for assistance If you are usi...

Page 24: ...ot diskette from Drive A Insert a diskette that has the FDISK utility into Drive A and type fdisk Press ENTER Note If you havetwo drives inyoursystem the menudisplays five options Option five allows you to select the drive you want to partition Make sure you select the correct drive 3 Selectcreate DOS partition or logical DOS drive Press ENTER 4 Select create primary DOS partition Use the maximum ...

Page 25: ... can prevent someone from accidentally deleting the partition and losing your data s tells the computer to copy the system files to the drive to make it bootable 2 When the computer prompts you for a volume label you can assign a name to the drive volume of up to eleven characters or leave it blank Press ENTER Windows 32 bit disk access If Windows enables the 32 bit disk access during its installa...

Page 26: ...ement that appears on the screen If you agree to the terms select ACCEPT AGREEMENT to continue 7 The next screen lists the features the SEG32BIT 386 driver supports If your computer supports these features they will be active in 32 bit disk access mode with SEG32BIT 386 for all drives that support them Select Install Driver to continue 8 Once the driver is installed you must enable the 32 bit disk...

Page 27: ... on the motherboard and are secured with mounting screws Check all cables Make sure all ribbon and power cables are securely connected Ribbon cables are easily damaged es pecially at the connector Try a new cable or a known good cable Make sure no socket pins were bent when the cable was inserted For each cable verify that cable connector pin 1 is aligned with equipment connector pin 1 The edge st...

Page 28: ...dvanced troubleshooting If you have performed the preceding basic checks but the prob lem has not been solved follow these guidelines for troubleshoot ing specific cases The system does not recognize the drive Check all cables Make sure the power supply is adequate for system needs Reboot the computer and make sure the drive motor runs If your drive is very quiet it may be difficult to hear its di...

Page 29: ...r must be off except for the video card Then reinstall the drive and host adapter card If this is successful reinstall the other peripherals one at a time until the conflict reoccurs After you have isolated the source of the address conflicts you can resolve the conflict by changing the I Oaddress of the peripheral that appears to cause the conflict If your drive wasinstalled with EZ Drive thespec...

Page 30: ... value You must install the drive using the same drive type or translation geometry that your dealer used to partition the drive Check for I O address conflicts between peripheral cards Check for viruses The screen remains blank when you power up the system Make sure the monitor is plugged in and turned on Check all cards Make sure the video card is seated in its slot and secured with mounting scr...

Page 31: ...k 0 from viruses This can cause FDISK to hang the system You must disable this feature in System Setup before you can use FDISK See your computer reference guide for assistance Be sure to re enable this important feature when FDISK is done System error message Drive not Ready appears Check all cable connections For each ribbon cable verify that pin 1 of the cable is matched to pin 1 of the connect...

Page 32: ...lation geometry limits imposed by the BIOS Refer to Standard setup on page 20 if any of these cases is true If you reset the System Setup drive type value you must partition and high level format the drive again If you partitioned the drive into individual logical drives you may need to make the partitions smaller so that the computer can use all of the drive s capacity If your computer supports L...

Page 33: ...are on page 23 Disabling EZ Drive Required materials A bootable diskette A diskette that has FDISK EXE To disable EZ Drive use the DOS utility FDISK MBR This utility replaces the EZ Drive boot information on Drive C with the DOS master boot record The DOS master boot record uses the information in System Setup to access the drive Your computer will stop accessing EZ Drive installed drives that are...

Page 34: ...ke it accessible see Partitioning and formatting the drive on page 21 Disabling Maximum Overdrive Maximum Overdrive enables the drive s read write multiple fea ture You can disable Maximum Overdrive during the installation process or anytime afterward To disable it during the installation select the Change Install Features option in the Options dialog box that appears when the format completes Thi...

Page 35: ...ave Changes PressENTER to save Additional EZ Drive troubleshooting and help information is avail able when you select Information Help in the main menu An swers to frequently asked troubleshooting questions are available in the EZ HELP EXE file on the diskette Medalist SL Family Installation Guide November 1995 33 ...

Page 36: ...nd through the Internet SeaBOARD Using a modem you can access documentation drive specifica tions and jumper settings for Seagate s entire product line You can also download software for installing and analyzing your drive SeaBOARD is available 24 hours daily It supports communica tions up to 9 600 baud Set your communications software to eight data bits no parity and one stop bit 8 N 1 SeaBOARD p...

Page 37: ...38 8137 You can FAX questions or comments to technical support specialists 24 hours daily Responses are sent between 8 00 A M and 5 00 P M Pacific time Monday through Friday SeaFONE 408 438 8222 You can talk to a technical support specialist between 8 00 A M and 5 00 P M Pacific time Monday through Friday SeaFONE provides recorded technical information on se lected Seagate products while you are o...

Page 38: ...r Seagate products is available on CompuServe To access our technical support forum typego seagate This forum provides information similar to that found on SeaBOARD Seagate s Internet connections Technical information for Seagate 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 infor...

Page 39: ... an unapproved container voids the warranty Call your authorized Seagate distributor to purchase additional boxes The following figure shows how a drive fits in an approved single pack box including the packing materials Foam Antistatic bag Drive Foam Foam Antistatic bag Drive Foam Figure 5 A drive in an approved package Medalist SL Family Installation Guide November 1995 37 ...

Page 40: ...Seagate Technology Inc 920 Disc Drive Scotts Valley CA 95066 USA Publication Number 36342 101 November 1995 Printed in USA ...

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