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ST9100A and ST9100AG Installation Guide, Rev. A Read before you begin... Note. ST9100A and ST9100AG are usually installed in note- book or laptop systems. Special training or tools may be needed to service these computers. In some instances, opening the case may void your warranty. Be sure to review the terms and conditions of your system warranty before opening the system enclosure.
Tampering with the factory seal voids the warranty. Seagate customer-service centers are the only facilities authorized to service Seagate drives. Seagate does not sanction any third-party repair facilities. Shipping. When transporting or shipping a drive, you must use a Seagate-approved container.
Before mounting the drive, be sure that the connecting cable is long enough to reach the drive, but not so long that it will be pinched when the system enclosure is replaced. Connecting cables for the ST9100A and ST9100AG must be no longer than 18 inches (457 mm). Power connections...
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ST9100A and ST9100AG Installation Guide, Rev. A Master/slave Pin 1 configuration jumpers Pin 20 removed Circuit board for keying Drive is master, no slave drive present Drive is master; Seagate slave drive present Drive is slave; Seagate master drive present Reserved position (Do not use) Figure 1.
ST9100A and ST9100AG Installation Guide, Rev. A Mounting the drive You may mount (and operate) the ST9100A and ST9100AG in any orientation. However, you must securely attach the drive to a rigid frame using four side-mounting screws or four bottom- mounting screws.
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ST9100A and ST9100AG Installation Guide, Rev. A cal Support services (on the SeaBOARD BBS) as described in Appendix C. The methods used to configure system BIOS vary from system to system. In many cases, you can run a setup program from the DOS prompt.
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In this case, consider the third option described on page 6 — allowing your ST9100A or ST9100AG drive to mimic one of the BIOS-sup- ported drive types. During the BIOS setup process, simply select a drive type with a capacity that is less than or equal to the drive’s...
Therefore, drives having a capacity of over 32 Mbytes must be divided into several smaller partitions for use with these older versions of DOS. Seagate does not recommend using the ST9100A or ST9100AG with a DOS version prior to Version 3.3.
DOS CHKDSK utility program. Installation troubleshooting Before calling Seagate Technical Support, please read and con- sider all the possibilities discussed below. The suggestions pre- sented here will resolve the vast majority of installation problems.
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ST9100A and ST9100AG Installation Guide, Rev. A Check all cards. Make sure all cards are secured in the expansion slots on the motherboard. Full size (16-bit) cards cannot be plugged into half-size (8-bit) slots. Make sure all cards are plugged into appropriately sized expansion slots.
ST9100A and ST9100AG Installation Guide, Rev. A Appendix A. AT interface connector pin assignments Drive pin # Host pin # and signal description Signal name Reset – Host Reset Ground Ground Host Data Bus Bit 7 Host Data Bus Bit 8...
ST9100A and ST9100AG Installation Guide, Rev. A Appendix B. Mounting dimensions Dimensions are in inches (mm) 0.489 ± 0.015 (12.42 ± 0.38) 0.039 ± 0.020 (0.99 ± 0.51) 0.000 in (mm) 0.118 ± 0.010 4X 3 mm 0.5 mm, (3.00 ± 0.25) 0.15 in (3.81mm)
ST9100A and ST9100AG Installation Guide, Rev. A Appendix C. Technical support services Product technical support is available for all Seagate products by calling the SeaFAX, SeaFONE, SeaTDD and SeaBOARD serv- ices described below. These services are free but long-distance charges (if any) are paid by the user.
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ST9100A and ST9100AG Installation Guide, Rev. A Reprints of Seagate documentation. A directory of information and helpful utility programs that you can download to your own computer. The FINDTYPE.EXE utility program, which can be very useful in drive installation. It compares the drive’s geometry with all geometries supported by your system BIOS.
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Seagate Technology, Inc. 920 Disc Drive, Scotts Valley, CA 95066, USA Publication Number: 36217-001, Rev. A, Printed in USA...
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