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Page 2: Table Of Contents
Publication Number: 36342-101, Rev. A, November 1995 Supersedes Publication Number 36309- Seagate, Seagate Technology, SeaFAX, SeaFONE, SeaBOARD and the Seagate logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology, Inc. Medalist and SeaTDD and Maximum Overdrive are trademarks of Seagate Technology, Inc. EZ-Drive are trademarks of Micro House International, Inc. -
Page 3: Introduction
Medalist SL Family Installation Guide, November 1995 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 in “Before you begin...”... - Page 4 Medalist SL Family Installation Guide, November 1995 Drive features Model ST5540A ST5851A ST51080A ST51270A Formatted Capacity 854.6 1,083 1,282 Mbytes Cylinders 1,050 1,656 2,100 2,485 Heads Sectors Average seek time 10.5 msec Cache (segmented) 128 Kbytes Spindle speed 5,376 RPM External transfer rate 16.6...
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Page 5: Before You Begin
ST51080A for the Medalist 1080sl and ST51270A for the Medalist 1270sl. 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. - Page 6 All such warranties are expressly and specifically disclaimed. Maintenance and repair. Seagate drives do not require mainte- nance. 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.
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Page 7: Configuring The Drive
Required materials: 2-mm jumper connector (supplied as spare jumpers) Your Seagate drive is configured using the options jumper block shown in Figure 1 on page 6. The option settings are shown in Figure 2 on page 7. You can configure the drive: For one- or two-drive operation. - Page 8 Medalist SL Family Installation Guide, November 1995 Options jumper block pin 1 pin 1 Interface connector Standard power connector Circuit board +5V return +12V return +12V Figure 1. Drive connectors One-drive only. Use this configuration if there are no other drives attached to the hard disc controller.
- Page 9 Medalist SL Family Installation Guide, November 1995 Circuit board side up Spares One drive only Drive is master; slave is present Drive is slave when another drive is master Master/slave timing protocol. Drive waits up to 30 seconds for slave to respond.
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Page 10: Attaching The Cables
Place a jumper on pins 3 and 4 and on pins 5 and 6 to extend the time period to 30 seconds that the Seagate master waits for the slave to respond. - Page 11 Medalist SL Family Installation Guide, November 1995 Caution. The cable and connector bond is delicate. Pulling the cable to remove the connector may damage the cable. Attach an interface connector to the drive. If your interface con- nector has a key, it will plug into the drive only one way. Make sure that you do not bend the pins when you attach the cable.
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Page 12: Mounting The Drive
Medalist SL Family Installation Guide, November 1995 Mounting the drive Required materials: Four 6-32 UNC-2A screws (not included) The drive fits in a standard 3.5-inch bay and can be mounted in any orientation. Position the drive so that the cables are not strained or crimped. -
Page 13: Transferring The Software From The Drive
Recent developments in drive technology have pushed drive capacities beyond the limits that many older computers using DOS can address. Seagate provides software that allows these computers to surpass the address limit and access your new drive’s full capacity. The software is stored on the drive at the factory and must be transferred to a diskette in Drive A before you partition and format the drive. - Page 14 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.
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Page 15: Configuring The Computer
The computer returns an invalid drive specifi- cation error if you try to access the drive. Caution. Do not write-protect the Seagate software diskette with EZ-Drive. The EZ-Drive program writes important in- formation back to the diskette during the installation. -
Page 16: Determining Whether Your Bios Accepts More Than 528 Mbytes
Medalist SL Family Installation Guide, November 1995 Determining whether 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 cannot recognize more than 528 Mbytes. -
Page 17: Using The Ez-Drive Installation Software
Note. The EZ-Drive software is authorized for installation only with the drive on which it is shipped. EZ-Drive allows your computer to access your Seagate drive’s full formatted capacity. It bypasses the BIOS during the boot sequence and uses information it creates on Drive C to identify the drive before DOS is loaded. - Page 18 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...
- Page 19 Medalist SL Family Installation Guide, November 1995 4. Locate the bottom box on the screen. The model number of each drive EZ-Drive identifies is listed in this box. If a drive you have installed is not listed or the drive order (Drive 0 is the...
- Page 20 Medalist SL Family Installation Guide, November 1995 Booting with a diskette after EZ-Drive is installed When you boot with a diskette, you must allow the EZ-Drive information about the drive to load into memory before the system information on the diskette loads. The diskette accesses the BIOS directly, which does not recognize the EZ-Drive-installed drive.
- Page 21 Medalist SL Family Installation Guide, November 1995 4. Select option 3 to delete the primary partition from the EZ- Drive installed drive. Note. EZ-Drive puts a volume label on the partition it creates. You must enter the label name to delete the partition.
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Page 22: Standard Setup
Medalist SL Family Installation Guide, November 1995 Standard setup If your computer accepts the full capacity of the new drive, System Setup must be configured to recognize the drive. Some comput- ers automatically detect the new drive and configure System Setup. -
Page 23: Partitioning And Formatting The Drive
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. - Page 24 Medalist SL Family Installation Guide, November 1995 Low-level formatting The drive is low-level formatted at the factory using 512 bytes per sector. Low-level formatting is not required. Partitioning You must partition the drive into one or more logical drives before you can use it.
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Page 25: Windows 32-Bit Disk Access
Medalist SL Family Installation Guide, November 1995 High-level formatting High-level formatting (henceforth referred to as formatting) builds the file allocation table (FAT) DOS uses to access files on the drive. If you put more than one partition on the drive, you must format each partition. - Page 26 Medalist SL Family Installation Guide, November 1995 2. Open the Main menu. 3. Open the Control Panel. 4. Open Enhanced.386. 5. Select Virtual Memory. 6. Select Change. 7. Select 32-Bit Disk Access at the bottom of the screen to change its status.
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Page 27: Basic Troubleshooting
Medalist SL Family Installation Guide, November 1995 Basic troubleshooting Warning. Always turn off the computer before changing jumpers or unplugging cables and cards. Caution. Your drive and computer contain static-sensitive de- vices. Wear a ground strap or use other antistatic precaution while handling your drive. -
Page 28: Advanced Troubleshooting
Medalist SL Family Installation Guide, November 1995 Check the power-supply specifications. If new devices are installed, your computer’s power supply may not support the new total power requirement. Consult your dealer. Verify the drive type setting in System Setup. The drive-... - Page 29 Medalist SL Family Installation Guide, November 1995 BIOS’ setup test may be completing before the drive is ready. One possible solution is to slow your computer’s processor speed during startup. If your computer has a turbo switch, set it to slow speed before turning the computer on. If there is no turbo switch, you may be able to use keyboard commands to slow the processor speed;...
- Page 30 Medalist SL Family Installation Guide, November 1995 The dealer partitioned and high-level formatted the drive for you in the store. Later, you installed the drive and it does not respond. Reboot the computer and make sure the drive spins up.
- Page 31 Medalist SL Family Installation Guide, November 1995 The system hangs in FDISK or fails to create or save the partition record. Check all cables. The DOS utilities diskette may be corrupted. Try your backup DOS diskette. Make the partitions smaller.
- Page 32 Medalist SL Family Installation Guide, November 1995 Reboot the computer and make sure the drive spins up. Verify the System Setup drive type values. Check for I/O address conflicts. The drive does not format to full capacity. Verify your computer’s System Setup drive-type values. One of the following problems may have occurred: 1) the values may be set for an incorrect drive type or translation geometry;...
- Page 33 Medalist SL Family Installation Guide, November 1995 Use FDISK to verify that the primary partition is active. Check for viruses. System error message, “HDD controller failure,” appears. Confirm the jumper settings on the drive. Verify the System Setup drive type values.
- Page 34 This feature allows you to enable or disable Maximum Overdrive. To disable it after the drive has been installed: 1. Insert the Seagate software diskette with EZ-Drive into the diskette drive. 2. Type ez at the command line.
- Page 35 Medalist SL Family Installation Guide, November 1995 5. Select Disable Maximum Overdrive. 6. Press the key to change the status. ENTER 7. Use the down-arrow key to select Save Changes. Press ENTER to save. Additional EZ-Drive troubleshooting and help information is avail- able when you select Information Help in the main menu.
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Page 36: Technical Support Services
If you need assistance installing your drive, consult your dealer. Your dealer is familiar with system configurations and can help you with system conflicts and other technical issues. If you need additional assistance with your Seagate drive or other , Sea FAX , Sea- Seagate products, you can call SeaBOARD ®... - Page 37 (Pacific time) Monday through Friday. A.M. P.M. SeaFONE provides recorded technical information on se- lected Seagate products while you are on hold. You can access the recordings 24 hours daily. Before calling, note your system configuration and drive model number (ST xxxx ).
- Page 38 (Pacific time) Monday through Friday A.M. P.M. Seagate CompuServe forum Online technical support for Seagate products is available on CompuServe. To access our technical support forum, type go 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...
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Page 39: Storing And Shipping Your Drive
Storing and shipping your drive Keep your original box and packing materials for storing or shipping 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 to purchase additional boxes. - Page 40 Seagate Technology, Inc. 920 Disc Drive, Scotts Valley, CA 95066, USA Publication Number: 36342-101, November 1995, Printed in USA...