Typical Ide Hard Drive Connectors; Preparing Your Hard Disk Drive; Starting From Scratch - ReActiveMicro MicroDrive Turbo Owner's Manual

Typical IDE Hard Drive Connectors

Cable key prevents improperly
plugging it into the drive
IDE Connector
Stripe on interface cable
denotes Pin 1

Preparing Your Hard Disk Drive

Starting from Scratch

Make a copy of the
will call it the Installation Disk).
Copy the GS/OS driver from the installation disk to your GS/OS boot volume hard
disk. Use any copy program to copy the driver to the /your.disk/SYSTEM/DRIVERS
folder (your.disk is the name of your GS/OS boot disk, for example /INSTALL if the
System 6 installer disk will be used). The driver is not required now, but later it will
speed up the installation process of GS/OS on the IDE drive (everything works fine
even without a GS/OS driver, but somewhat slower).
Boot the installation disk to run the configuration program MICRO.INSTALLER.
Do not use a GS/OS program launcher.
After you have launched the program, the screen gets blanked. If your hard disk is
brand new, you will notice a short time of hard disk activity while the screen says
one moment please...
At this time, the installation program scans your hard disk to find the operating
parameters (number of cylinders, number of heads and number of sectors per track).
MicroDrive Turbo
MicroDrive Turbo
Card Utilities Disk. Use this copy now (we
Pin 1
Red (+5V)
Black (GND)
Black (GND)
Yellow (+12V)
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Power Cable
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