Configuring The Drive - Seagate MEDALIST 1270 Installation Manual

Medalist 1270 Installation Guide, July 1995
Warning. Turn off the computer before you remove its cover.
Turn off the power before you install or remove any
adapter card or the drive.
Caution. Special training or tools may be required to service
laptop computers. Removing the cover may void your
warranty. Review the terms and conditions of your
warranty before removing the cover.

Configuring the drive

Required materials:
0.100-inch jumper connectors (supplied as spare jumpers)
Your Seagate drive is configured using the options jumper block
shown in Figure 1 on page 6. You can configure the drive:
For one- or two-drive operation
To be the master or slave drive
For dual-drive emulation
To operate as the master with drives that use a different
master/slave timing protocol
For computers that use cable-select
To use a remote drive-activity LED
To configure the drive, attach a jumper to the pins on the options
jumper block as shown in Figure 2 on page 7 for the desired
option. The configuration options are:
Spare jumper. Use the spare jumpers on pins 1 and 3 and
pins 5 and 7 to configure the drive. These settings are not used
for drive operation.
One-drive only. Use this configuration if there are no other
drives attached to the hard disc controller.
Master with slave present. Use this configuration if the drive
is the first of two drives in your system. The master drive is
drive 0 in the System Setup record.
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