Partitioning And Logically Formatting Your Eide Hard-Disk Drive; Installing Scsi Devices; Scsi Configuration Guidelines; Scsi Id Numbers - Dell Precision 400 User Manual

9. If it is not already connected, connect the other
end of the EIDE cable to the IDE1 connector on
the system board.
CAUTION: You must match the colored strip
on the EIDE cable with pin 1 on the IDE1 con-
nector to avoid possible damage to your
system.
10. Connect a DC power cable to the power input con-
nector on the back of the drive (see Figure 9-10).
Check all connectors to be certain that they are prop-
erly cabled and firmly seated.
11. Replace the computer cover. Then reconnect your
computer and peripherals to their power sources.
12. Insert a bootable diskette (such as the diagnostics
diskette) into drive A, and turn on the computer
system.
13. Enter the System Setup program, update the
appropriate Drive category (0 or 1) under Drives:
Primary, and reboot the system.
See "Drives: Primary and Secondary" in Chapter 3.
14. Partition and logically format your drive as
described in the next subsection before proceed-
ing to the next step.
15. Test the hard-disk drive by running the Hard-
Disk Drive(s) Test Group in the Dell Diagnostics.
See your Diagnostics and Troubleshooting Guide for
information on running the diagnostics and trouble-
shooting any problems that may occur.
16. Install your operating system on the hard-disk
drive.
Refer to the documentation that came with your
operating system.
Partitioning and Logically Formatting
Your EIDE Hard-Disk Drive
Every EIDE hard-disk drive must be physically format-
ted, partitioned, and logically formatted before it can be
used to store data.
NOTE: When using the Windows NT operating system
with the file allocation table (FAT) 16 file system, the
primary partition for each hard-disk drive can be no
larger than 2 gigabytes (GB). Extended partitions can be
larger than 2 GB, but each logical drive within an
extended partition must be no larger than 2 GB.
Every hard-disk drive from Dell is physically formatted
before it is sent to you.
To partition and logically format your hard-disk drive,
use the program(s) offered by your operating system.
I
nstalling SCSI Devices
NOTES: Dell does not support the use of bootable SCSI
subsystems and EIDE peripherals in the same
configuration.
On systems running the Windows 95 operating system,
you cannot use both EIDE and SCSI devices.
To use SCSI devices in your Dell computer, you must
have a SCSI host adapter card, which comes with its own
SCSI cable. This cable can be used to attach a variety of
SCSI devices (hard-disk drives, tape drives, and so on).
The SCSI host adapter configures the devices attached to
it as one subsystem—not as independent devices.
Although SCSI devices are installed essentially the same
way as other devices, their configuration requirements
are different.

SCSI Configuration Guidelines

For details on configuring your SCSI subsystem, refer to
the documentation that came with your SCSI devices
and/or your host adapter card. The following subsections
offer some general guidelines.

SCSI ID Numbers

Each device attached to a SCSI host adapter card, as well
as the card itself, must have a unique SCSI ID number
from 0 to 7. When SCSI devices are shipped from Dell,
the default SCSI ID numbers are assigned as follows:
•
A SCSI host adapter card is configured as SCSI ID 7
(the default ID for a host adapter card).
•
A SCSI tape drive or digital audio tape (DAT) drive
is configured as SCSI ID 6 (the default ID for a tape
drive).
Installing Drives 9-11