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Seagate ST317242A Installation Manual

Seagate ST317242A Installation Manual

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Medalist 17242 (ST317242A)
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Medalist 13032 (ST313032A)
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Medalist 10232 (ST310232A)
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Medalist 8422 (ST38422A)
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Medalist 4312 (ST34312A)
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  • Page 1 ........Medalist 17242 (ST317242A) .
  • Page 2 Medalist logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technol- ogy, Inc. DiscWizard, SeaFAX, SeaFONE, SeaTDD and Sea- BOARD are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Seagate Technology, Inc. or one of its subsidiaries. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Additional installation options ..........19 Non-ATA compatible slave jumper........19 Cable select jumper ............. 19 Advanced Disk Manager options ........20 Troubleshooting ..............23 Alternate capacity jumper ..........25 Seagate Technology support services ....... 31 Storing and shipping your drive ......... 38...
  • Page 4 Medalist 17242, 13032, 10232, 8422 and 4312, Rev. A...

  • Page 5: The Easiest Way To Install Your Drive

    Medalist 17242, 13032, 10232, 8422 and 4312, Rev. A The easiest way to install your drive DiscWizard™ is Seagate’s exclusive Win- dows program, which makes it easy to install ® your Medalist drive. DiscWizard helps you configure your new drive and your computer. It analyzes your system, lets you select various installation options and creates customized step-by-step instructions.

  • Page 6: What You Need

    ® • Save your foam-lined Seagate disc drive box. This box has been approved by Seagate for shipping a Seagate disc drive. Using any other container or packing material voids your drive warranty.

  • Page 7: Handling Precautions

    Medalist 17242, 13032, 10232, 8422 and 4312, Rev. A Handling precautions Disc drives are extremely fragile. Do not drop or jar your drive. Keep the drive in its antistatic bag until you are ready to install it. Protect your drive from static discharge by making sure you are well grounded before touching the drive.

  • Page 8: Master/Slave Jumpers

    Medalist 17242, 13032, 10232, 8422 and 4312, Rev. A Master/slave jumpers If your new Seagate drive will be the only drive in your computer, you do not have to change any jumper settings. In this case, skip ahead to “Attaching Cables and Mounting the Drive,” on page 6.
  • Page 9 Medalist 17242, 13032, 10232, 8422 and 4312, Rev. A ATA interface connector 2 4 6 4-pin power connector 1 3 5 Slave Master or single drive Figure 1. Master and slave jumper settings...

  • Page 10: Attaching Cables And Mounting The Drive

    Medalist 17242, 13032, 10232, 8422 and 4312, Rev. A Attaching cables and mounting the drive 1. If you are attaching an ATA (IDE) interface cable to a single drive, attach one end of the cable to the interface connector on your motherboard. Most computers provide two IDE con- nectors, primary and secondary, usually labeled as IDE or HDD on your motherboard.
  • Page 11 Medalist 17242, 13032, 10232, 8422 and 4312, Rev. A Note. If you are using the 80-conductor cable, attach the blue connector (with the longest section of the cable) to the motherboard, attach the black connector to the master or single drive, and attach the grey connector to the slave. Caution.
  • Page 12 Medalist 17242, 13032, 10232, 8422 and 4312, Rev. A Power connector Interface connector Pin 1 Figure 4. Cable connectors Caution. To avoid possible damage to the drive, do not overtighten the screws and do not use metric screws. Note. If you are mounting the drive in a 5.25-inch drive bay, you need a mounting adapter or frame kit.

  • Page 13: Configuring Your Computer

    Medalist 17242, 13032, 10232, 8422 and 4312, Rev. A Configuring your computer Before you format or partition your new drive, you must configure your computer’s BIOS. To configure your computer’s BIOS: 1. Turn your computer on. As your computer starts up, watch the screen for a message that describes how to run the system setup program (also called BIOS or CMOS setup).

  • Page 14: Bios Settings

    Medalist 17242, 13032, 10232, 8422 and 4312, Rev. A BIOS Settings Drive Cylinders Heads Sectors ST317242A CHS addressing 16,383 Addressable sectors 33,683,328 — — ST313032A CHS addressing 16,383 Addressable sectors 25,434,228 — — ST310232A CHS addressing* 16,383 Addressable sectors 20,005,650 —...

  • Page 15: Ultra Ata 66 Requirements

    A 40-pin 80 conductor cable. For more information see page 6. • A software utility to activate Ultra ATA 66. Seagate provides a utility called UATA66.exe. If you did not receive this utility, you can download it from our Web site at www.seagate.com.

  • Page 16: Addressing Drive-Capacity Limitations

    528-Mbyte limit The BIOS in some older computers cannot accommodate drives with capacities greater than 528 Mbytes. Seagate provides free Disk Manager software with your drive to overcome this limita- tion. Alternatively, you can purchase a hard drive controller or a BIOS upgrade that supports drives with capacities greater than 528 Mbytes.
  • Page 17 Medalist 17242, 13032, 10232, 8422 and 4312, Rev. A To achieve your drive’s full capacity, you need a Windows operat- ing system that supports FAT32 and device support for drive capacities greater than 8.4 Gbytes, from one of the following: •...

  • Page 18: Partitioning And Formatting Your Drive

    Medalist 17242, 13032, 10232, 8422 and 4312, Rev. A Partitioning and formatting your drive One drive: For a quick installation, use the Disk Manager software to auto- matically partition and format your drive. Disk Manager also ensures that your computer can access the full capacity of your hard drive.

  • Page 19: Installation Using Disk Manager

    4. Select either (E)asy Disk Installation or (A)dvanced Disk Installation. Disk Manager lists all the hard drives that it detects. You should see your new Seagate drive and your existing hard drive, if any. If any hard drive is not recognized, exit Disk Manager and turn off your computer.

  • Page 20: Windows 98 Or Windows 95 Installation

    Medalist 17242, 13032, 10232, 8422 and 4312, Rev. A Windows 98 or Windows 95 installation 1. Boot your computer from the Windows startup diskette with the Windows CD loaded. 2. At the prompt, type x: setup, where x is the drive letter of your CD-ROM drive.

  • Page 21: Standard Dos Installation

    Medalist 17242, 13032, 10232, 8422 and 4312, Rev. A Standard DOS installation Caution. Partitioning or formatting a drive erases all data on it. Seagate assumes no liability if you erase your data. Drive partitioning Partitioning a hard drive divides it into sections (partitions) that function as separate logical drives (labeled C,D,E, etc.).
  • Page 22 Medalist 17242, 13032, 10232, 8422 and 4312, Rev. A Drive formatting Caution. Make sure to use the correct drive letters so that you do not format a drive that already contains data. At the A: prompt, type format x : /s, where x is the letter of your first new partition.

  • Page 23: Additional Installation Options

    28 disabled is used for the slave drive. See your computer manual to determine whether your computer supports this feature. To configure your Seagate drive for cable select, place a jumper as shown on pins 5 and 6.

  • Page 24: Advanced Disk Manager Options

    Medalist 17242, 13032, 10232, 8422 and 4312, Rev. A Advanced Disk Manager options The Disk Manger online manual Disk Manager contains an extensive online manual. This manual includes detailed installation instructions, troubleshooting and a list of master/slave jumper settings for many different hard drives.
  • Page 25 Medalist 17242, 13032, 10232, 8422 and 4312, Rev. A Supported operating systems The Disk Manager dynamic drive overlay provides support for drives that have capacities greater than 528 Mbytes under MS- DOS, Windows 3. x, Windows 95, Windows NT 3.51, Windows NT 3.50 (requires DM upgrade drivers), OS/2 V3.0 (Warp full pack), and OS/2 V2.0–3.0 (requires DM upgrade drivers).
  • Page 26 Medalist 17242, 13032, 10232, 8422 and 4312, Rev. A To remove a DDO from a drive: Boot the computer to drive C. Insert your DiscWizard diskette or CD. Type DM to start Disk Manager. Select the Select Installation Options Menu. Select (M)aintenance Menu.

  • Page 27: Troubleshooting

    Medalist 17242, 13032, 10232, 8422 and 4312, Rev. A Troubleshooting If you have installed your drive and it does not function properly, perform the following basic checks: Warning. Always turn off the computer before changing jumpers or unplugging cables and cards. Wear a ground strap or use other antistatic precautions while working on your computer or handling your drive.
  • Page 28 4,092 cylinders. If your system has this limitation, use the follow- ing procedure to configure your computer: 1. Turn off your computer, open the case, and remove your new Seagate drive. Caution. To avoid electrostatic discharge damage to your computer or hard drive, make sure you are well- grounded before touching the drive, cable, connector or jumpers.

  • Page 29: Alternate Capacity Jumper

    Medalist 17242, 13032, 10232, 8422 and 4312, Rev. A 2 4 6 1 3 5 Full capacity Limit capacity to 2.1 Gbytes (4,092 cylinders) Figure 6. Alternate capacity jumper 2. Move the jumper on the alternate-capacity jumper, as shown in Figure 6. This causes the drive to appear to your BIOS as having a 2.1-Gbyte capacity (4,092 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors per track).
  • Page 30 Medalist 17242, 13032, 10232, 8422 and 4312, Rev. A 3. Remount your drive in the computer and replace the computer cover. 4. Insert a bootable system diskette into drive A and turn on the computer. It should boot from drive A and automatically detect the new drive as a 2.1-Gbyte drive.
  • Page 31 Medalist 17242, 13032, 10232, 8422 and 4312, Rev. A • Reboot the computer and listen to make sure the drive motor starts up. If the drive is very quiet, it may be difficult to hear its discs reach operating speed. If the drive motor does not start up, recheck all drive cables.
  • Page 32 Medalist 17242, 13032, 10232, 8422 and 4312, Rev. A • If Disk Manager has installed the DDO on your hard drive and you have booted directly from a diskette, the information in the boot record for the drive may not have been loaded. Make sure there is no diskette in drive A and reboot.
  • Page 33 Medalist 17242, 13032, 10232, 8422 and 4312, Rev. A • Some BIOS have a Track 0 protection feature that protects Track 0 from viruses. This may cause FDISK to hang the sys- tem. You must disable this feature in the system setup pro- gram before you can use FDISK.
  • Page 34 Medalist 17242, 13032, 10232, 8422 and 4312, Rev. A Caution. If you change the drive-type values in the system setup program, you must partition and format the drive again. This erases data on the drive . • If you have partitioned the drive into individual logical drives, you may need to make the partitions smaller to access the full drive capacity.

  • Page 35: Seagate Technology Support Services

    ® SeaBOARD is a computer bulletin board system that contains information about Seagate disc and tape drive products and is available 24 hours daily. Set your communications software to eight data bits, no parity and one stop bit (8-N-1). This service is available worldwide.
  • Page 36 If you need additional help, you can talk to a Seagate technical support specialist. Before calling, note your system configuration and drive model number (ST xxxxx ).
  • Page 37 Medalist 17242, 13032, 10232, 8422 and 4312, Rev. A Customer Service (CSO) Warranty repair Seagate offers worldwide customer support for Seagate drives. Seagate direct OEM, Distribution and System Integrator custom- ers should contact their Seagate service center representative for warranty information. Other customers should contact their place of purchase.
  • Page 38 Presales support Disc: 1-877-271-3285 or +1-405-936-1210 FAX: +1-405-936-1683 Tape: 1-800-626-6637 or +1-714-641-2500 FAX: +1-714-641-2410 Technical Support (SeaFONE) 1-800-SEAGATE or +1-405-936-1234 (specific product phone number) FAX: Disc: +1-405-936-1685; Tape: +1-405-936-1683 Warranty repair USA and Canada 1-800-468-3472 FAX: +1-405-949-6740 Latin America +1-405-949-7758...
  • Page 39 Medalist 17242, 13032, 10232, 8422 and 4312, Rev. A European support services For European customer support, dial the toll-free number for your specific country for presales support, technical support, SeaFAX and warranty repair. If your country is not listed here, dial our European call center at +31-20-316-7222 from 8:30 A.M.
  • Page 40 Medalist 17242, 13032, 10232, 8422 and 4312, Rev. A SeaBOARD Germany +49-89-1409331 FAX Services—All European Countries Presales/Technical Support/Warranty Repair +31-20-653-3513 Africa/Middle East support services For presales, technical support, warranty repair and FAX ser- vices in Africa and the Middle East, dial our European call center at +31-20-316-7222 from 8:30 to 5:00 (European central...
  • Page 41 Medalist 17242, 13032, 10232, 8422 and 4312, Rev. A Asia/Pacific support services Technical support Australia +61-2-9725-3366 FAX: +61-2-9725-4052 Hong Kong +852-2368 9918 FAX: +852-2368 7173 Japan — FAX: +81-3-5462-2979 Singapore +65-488-7584 FAX: +65-488-7528 Taiwan +886-2-2514-2237 FAX: +886-2-2715-2923 SeaFAX Australia +61-2-9756-5170 Warranty repair Japan +81-3-5462-2904...

  • Page 42: Storing And Shipping Your Drive

    Storing and shipping your drive Keep your original box and packing materials for storing or ship- ping your drive. The box has a Seagate Approved Package label. Shipping a drive in an unapproved container voids the warranty. Call your authorized Seagate distributor for information about packing materials.
  • Page 43 Maintenance and repair Seagate drives do not require maintenance. The head/disc assembly is sealed; a broken seal voids the warranty. Seagate customer-service centers are the only facilities authorized to repair Seagate drives. Electromagnetic Compliance for the European Union...
  • Page 44 Medalist 17242, 13032, 10232, 8422 and 4312, Rev. A nung muss SELV entsprechen. 5. Alle Arbeiten auf dem Fest- platte dürfen Ausgebildetem Servicepersonal durchgeführt werden. Bitte entfernen Sie nicht die Aufschriftens- childer des Laufwerkes. 6. Der Einbau des Laufwerkes muss den Anforderungen gemäss DIN IEC 950 VDE 0805/05.90 entsprechen.
  • Page 45 Medalist 17242, 13032, 10232, 8422 and 4312, Rev. A...
  • Page 46 Medalist 17242, 13032, 10232, 8422 and 4312, Rev. A Seagate Technology, Inc. 920 Disc Drive, Scotts Valley, CA 95066-4544, USA Publication Number: 20600132-001, Rev. A, Printed in USA...

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