Maxtor DiamondMax 1750 Installation Sheet

DiamondMax
87000A8, 86480A8, 85120A6, 84320A5, 83500A4, 83240A4, 82560A3 and 81750A2
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Before You Begin
Handling Precautions
Please observe the following handling cautions:
Allow the hard drive to reach room temperature BEFORE installing it in your
computer system.
Hard drives are sensitive to electrostatic discharge (ESD) damage.
Handle the drive by its sides. DO NOT touch the printed circuit board assembly.
NEVER drop, jar, or bump the drive.
DON'T connect/disconnect any drive cables when the power is on.
Installation Procedures
This Hard Drive Installation Sheet provides general guidance for installing the Maxtor hard
drive in a typical computer system. Review all of the information contained in this document
before proceeding.
Tools for Installation
The following tools are needed to complete the installation of your Maxtor hard drive:
• A small (#2) Phillips head screw driver
• Small needle-nose pliers or tweezers
• Your computer user's manual
• A DOS 5.0 (or higher) or Windows 95 bootable system diskette
Pre-installation Information
If you do not understand the installation steps, have a qualified computer technician
install the drive. This Maxtor hard drive has been low-level formatted during manufacturing.
DO NOT use any low-level formatting software on this drive.
Protecting Existing Data
Maxtor recommends that you make a backup copy of the files on any existing hard drives.
If required, this data may then be copied to the Maxtor hard drive after it has been installed in
your computer. Refer to your computer user's manual for detailed data backup instructions.
Capacity Calculations
Maxtor defines one megabyte as 10 6
or one billion bytes (1,000,000,000).
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or one million bytes (1,000,000) and one gigabyte as 10
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Hard Drive Identification
Jumper Settings
Before installing the drive in the computer, you must determine how the jumpers on the
drive are to be set. Drives are identified as follows:
Device 0 = Primary Master
Device 1 = Primary Slave
Device 2 = Secondary Master
Device 3 = Secondary Slave
A jumper is a small piece of plastic that slides over a pair of pins on the drive circuit board
to make an electrical connection and activate a specific function.
The standard jumper configuration figure below shows the valid jumper settings for the
Maxtor hard drive. A spare jumper is shipped between J46 and J48.
The Maxtor hard drive is shipped with the drive jumpers configured as Device 0. These are the
normal jumper configurations for most systems.
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Systems Using Cable Select
Most systems do not use this feature. Unless you are sure that the system that the
Maxtor hard drive is being installed in uses Cable Select, do not set up the drive with
this feature enabled.
Maxtor hard drives support Cable Select – which allows the system to identify Device 0
and Device 1 drives on the interface cable. If your system supports this feature, refer to
the system user's manual or contact the system manufacturer for specific procedures for
installing hard drives.
On Maxtor DiamondMax 1750 hard drives, the Cable Select is enabled by installing a
jumper on J48. When J48 is installed, remove the jumper from J50.