Seagate ST313620A manual

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    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barracuda ATA F amily . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ST328040A, ST320430A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ST313620A, ST310220A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [...]

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    © 1999 Seagate T echnol og y , Inc. All ri ghts rese r ved . Publica tio n Num ber : 212 0013 5- 00 1, R ev . A, July 1 999 Seagate , Seagat e T echnolo gy , the Seagate l ogo and Barr acuda are regist ered tr ademarks of Seagate T echnolo g y , Inc. Dis cWiz- ard, SeaF AX, SeaFONE, Se aTDD and SeaBO AR D are either trade marks or regis tered tra [...]

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    Barra cuda A T A F amily I nstallati on Guide , Re v . A -1 Contents The easie st wa y to install your drive .............. ........... ........... 1 What y ou need ................ ............ ................ ................. ........... 2 Ultra A T A/66 require ments .................... ................. ................ 2 Before you begin ..[...]

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    0 Barrac uda A T A F amily Installa tion Guide , Rev . A iv[...]

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    Barra cuda A T A F amily I nstallati on Guide , Re v . A 1 The easie st way to ins tall y our drive DiscWizard  is Seagat e’ s e xclusiv e Wind ows pro gr am that i s includ ed with your drive f or easy driv e inst allatio n. Disc Wizard he lps y ou confi gure y our ne w driv e and your com- pute r . It analy zes your sy ste m, le ts you s ele[...]

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    2 Barrac uda A T A F amily Installa tion Guide , Rev . A What y ou need • Stra ight-edge and Philli ps scre wdrivers • F our 6-32 UNC dr ive mounting screws • A standar d 40-pin A T A interf ace cab le, or an 80-conduc tor cab le to run Ultr a A T A 66 (max length: 18 inche s) • An unu sed driv e po wer cab l e for y our ne w dr iv e Ultra [...]

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    Barra cuda A T A F amily I nstallati on Guide , Re v . A 3 Handling precautions Disc drives are e x t remely fragil e. Do not dr op or jar you r dr i ve. K eep the dr ive in it s ant ist ati c bag until you ar e ready to install it. Prote ct your d r ive from st at ic di scha rge by mak ing sure y ou are well g rounded bef ore to uching the drive .[...]

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    4 Barrac uda A T A F amily Installa tion Guide , Rev . A Master/s lave jumpe rs If y ou al ready ha v e one ha rd drive in y our c omputer an d yo u are inst allin g a seco nd driv e , y ou m ust c onfigu re on e driv e as a ma s- ter and th e other as a sla v e. Note. If you need to change th e jumpe rs on you r e xisting ha rd drive , see the Dis[...]

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    Barra cuda A T A F amily I nstallati on Guide , Re v . A 5 Figure 1. M aster and sl ave jum per settings pin 1 ATA interface connector 135 24 6 7 8 Slave Master or single drive 4-pin power connector[...]

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    6 Barrac uda A T A F amily Installa tion Guide , Rev . A Attaching cabl es and mounting the drive 1. Attach o ne end o f the driv e inte rfa ce cab le to the interf ace connec tor on y our motherboard (See you r computer man ual f or connec tor locati ons). Caution. Ali gn pin 1 on the mo therboard con nector with pin 1 on your driv e connec tor . [...]

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    Barra cuda A T A F amily I nstallati on Guide , Re v . A 7 Note. Y ou can mou nt the drive in an y orienta tion. Usua lly it is mounted with the c ircuit boa rd down. Caution. Do not over ti ghte n th e sc rews or us e me tr ic scre ws . This ma y damage the d riv e. Figure 3. M ounting the d rive 3. Secure the driv e in the com puter usi ng f our [...]

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    8 Barrac uda A T A F amily Installa tion Guide , Rev . A Configuring y our computer Bef ore yo u f ormat or partition y our ne w driv e, y ou must conf igure yo ur computer’ s BIOS . T o con figure y our computer’ s BIOS: 1. T ur n your co mpute r on. As y our c omputer st arts up, w at ch f or a mess age tha t descr ibes how to ru n the syst e[...]

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    Barra cuda A T A F amily I nstallati on Guide , Re v . A 9 Note. Set the wr it e p rec omp or landi ng zo ne param eters to z ero . W e recomm end y ou use Dis k Manager to e valua te your BIO S and det ermine whethe r you r system needs additi onal BIOS sup- por t. For more infor m ati on, see “I nst all ation us ing Di sk M ana ger ” on page [...]

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    10 Barracud a A T A F amily Installa tion Guide , Rev . A Addressing drive-capacity limitations Some D OS-based c omputers and oper ating s ystems are not design ed to acco mmodate l arge-ca pacity ha rd disc driv es . The most co mmon syst em l im ita tio ns are list ed b e low . 528-Mb yte limit The BIOS in s ome older co mputer s cannot su pport[...]

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    Barra cuda A T A F amily I nstallati on Guide , Re v . A 11 BIOS upgrade s If y ou need to u pgrad e yo ur BIOS, contact th e appropriate BIO S manufacture r li sted below: American Mega trends (AMI ): 1-800-828 -9264 www .megatrends. com A wa rd Softw are Internationa l, Inc . : 1-800-800 -2467 www .aw ard.com Phoenix T echnologie s Ltd.: 1-800-76[...]

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    12 Barracud a A T A F amily Installa tion Guide , Rev . A Preparing y our drive for use Installing a single drive F or a q uic k i ns tall ati on, we re co mmend y ou use Disk Ma nag er to automat ically p ar tition a nd f ormat y our driv e. Disk Manager also ens ures that y our computer ca n access the full cap acity of y our hard driv e . See ?[...]

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    Barra cuda A T A F amily I nstallati on Guide , Re v . A 13 4. Select ei ther (E)asy Disk Ins tallation or (A)dv anced Disk Inst allation. Disk Manager l ists all th e hard driv es t hat it detec ts. Y o u shoul d see your new Seag at e dr ive and your existin g hard dri ve, if any . If an y hard drive is not re cogniz ed, e xit Disk Man ager an d [...]

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    14 Barracud a A T A F amily Installa tion Guide , Rev . A Standard DOS installation Caution. P artitioning or f or mattin g a drive e rases al l data on it. Sea gate ass umes no lia bility if you erase y our d ata. Drive part itioning P ar t it ioni ng a ha rd dr ive divi des it into sect ion s ( par titi ons ) t hat functio n as sepa rate log ical[...]

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    Barra cuda A T A F amily I nstallati on Guide , Re v . A 15 7. When partitioning i s complete , FDISK reboots y our com- puter . Proceed to “Drive F ormatting.” Note. If you are a dding a second drive to y our sys tem, y ou can run FDISK from Wi ndows . Clic k the Start bu t to n . Select Run ... Then ty pe fdisk and c lick O K. Drive formatti [...]

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    16 Barracud a A T A F amily Installa tion Guide , Rev . A Additional installation options Figure 4. Non -A T A compatib le and ca ble select ju mper s Non-A T A compatible slave jumper If y our co mputer do es not recogniz e y our ne w driv e as a master in a tw o-driv e sys tem, the sla ve driv e ma y not be A T A-compa ti- ble. Y ou may be a ble [...]

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    Barra cuda A T A F amily I nstallati on Guide , Re v . A 17 Adv anced Disk Manager options The Disk Mange r online manual Disk Ma nag er co ntain s an extens ive onl ine m anual . This manual includ es detaile d inst allation i nstructions , troub leshooting an d a list o f mas ter/ slave jump er set ting s for many dif ferent h ard dri ves. T o vi[...]

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    18 Barracud a A T A F amily Installa tion Guide , Rev . A Supported operating systems The Di sk Mana ger dynamic driv e ov er la y prov ides su pport for dri ves with cap acit ies great er th an 52 8 Mbytes unde r MS-D OS, Window s 3. x, Windo w s 95, Wi ndo ws NT 3.51, Wi ndo ws NT 3.50 (req uires DM upgrade drivers ), OS/2 V3.0 (War p full pack),[...]

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    Barra cuda A T A F amily I nstallati on Guide , Re v . A 19 T o remo ve a DDO fr om a drive: 1. Boot the c omputer t o drive C . 2. Insert your Dis cWizard dis ket te or CD . 3. Ty p e dm to star t Disk Ma na ger. 4. Select th e Sele ct In sta lla tio n Opt i ons Menu . 5. Select (M)a int ena nce M enu. 6. Select (M)ig rate Dynami c Drive . This pr[...]

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    20 Barracud a A T A F amily Installa tion Guide , Rev . A T roub leshooting If y ou ha v e install ed yo ur drive and it do es not func tion prope rly , perfor m th e followin g b asic checks: W a rning. Alwa ys tur n off the computer bef ore changing jumpers or unplug ging cab les and c ards. W ear a gro und strap or use other antistati c precauti[...]

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    Barra cuda A T A F amily I nstallati on Guide , Re v . A 21 • V erify the drive-type settings in the sy stem setup pro- gram. The drive-type settings in the s ystem BIOS must n ot e xceed the ph ysical s pecific ations of y our dri ve . Also , the set- tings m ust not e xceed th e limita tions set b y the ope rating s ys- tem and BIOS. • Chec k[...]

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    22 Barracud a A T A F amily Installa tion Guide , Rev . A Figure 5. Alternate Capa city J umper 2. Mov e the jumper on the alternate-cap acity jum per , as show n in Figu re 5. This causes th e drive to appea r to y our BIOS a s hav ing a 2. 1-Gb yte c apacity (4,092 cy linders , 16 he ads, 6 3 sectors per trac k). Y ou ma y need th ird-party par t[...]

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    Barra cuda A T A F amily I nstallati on Guide , Re v . A 23 3. Remou nt y our driv e in the com puter and replace t he com - put e r c over . 4. Insert a boo tabl e syste m disk ette into d rive A and turn on the comput er . It should boo t from driv e A an d automat ically detect t he ne w driv e as a 2.1-Gb yte driv e. 5. Insert your D iscWizard [...]

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    24 Barracud a A T A F amily Installa tion Guide , Rev . A • Reboo t the compute r and list en to mak e sure the driv e motor starts up. If the driv e is ve r y quiet, it ma y be difficult to hea r its discs reach oper ating sp eed. If t he drive motor does not st ar t up , re check al l dr i ve cables. • V er ify tha t for e ach dri ve, a dr iv[...]

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    Barra cuda A T A F amily I nstallati on Guide , Re v . A 25 • If Di sk Man ager has instal led the DDO o n y our h ard driv e and yo u hav e booted directly from a dis ket te, the i nf ormation in the boot rec ord f or the driv e m a y no t ha v e b een lo aded. Mak e sure there is n o disk ette in driv e A and reb oot. If y ou want to boot from [...]

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    26 Barracud a A T A F amily Installa tion Guide , Rev . A tem. Y ou must disab le this f eature in the system s etup pr o- gr am bef ore y ou can u se FDISK. See y ou r comp uter ref er ence guide for ass ist ance. Be s ure t o re -ena ble th is im por tant fea- ture when FDISK is done . The syste m err or mess age, “Drive not R eady ,” appe ar[...]

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    Barra cuda A T A F amily I nstallati on Guide , Re v . A 27 Caution. If y ou cha nge the driv e-type va lues in the s ys- tem setup progr am, y ou mus t par tition and format the dri ve agai n. This er ases da ta on the d rive . • If y ou h av e pa r titioned the driv e into indi vidual logical drives , yo u ma y need t o mak e the p ar titions s[...]

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    28 Barracud a A T A F amily Installa tion Guide , Rev . A Seagate T echnolog y suppor t services Online ser vices Internet F or onlin e inf ormation abou t Seagate produ cts, v isit www .seagate .com or e-mail y our disc questio ns to: Presales support: DiscPreSales @Seagate .com W eb si te: http://www .seaga te.com/f eedback .shmtl T echnical supp[...]

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    Barra cuda A T A F amily I nstallati on Guide , Re v . A 29 Presales Suppor t Presales Su pport Our Presal es support staff can help y ou determine w hich Seagate products are best su ited f or your s pecific applic ation or comput er system. T echnical support T echnical s upport If y ou nee d help ins talling your d rive , con sult yo ur deal er [...]

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    30 Barracud a A T A F amily Installa tion Guide , Rev . A A uthorized service cente rs If y ou liv e outside the US , y ou can contact a n A uthoriz ed service center f or ser vice or repair . USA/Canada/Latin Amer ica suppor t serv ices Presales s upport 1-877-271-3285 or +1-405-936-1210 F AX: +1-405-936-1683 T echnical Sup port (SeaFONE) 1-800-SE[...]

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    Barra cuda A T A F amily I nstallati on Guide , Re v . A 31 Eur opean suppor t services F or Eur opean c ustomer s upport, dial the toll-fre e num ber f or p re- sales s uppor t, technical supp or t, SeaF AX and warr anty repair . If your coun tr y is not listed her e, dial ou r Eur opea n cal l cente r at +31-20-31 6-7222 from 8:30 A.M. to 5:00 P.[...]

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    32 Barracud a A T A F amily Installa tion Guide , Rev . A Africa/Middle East suppor t servic es F or pres ales, tec hnical support, warr anty repai r and F AX ser- vices in Africa and the Mi ddle East, dial our Eur opean cal l c en ter at +31 -20 -316 -7 222 fr om 8: 30 A.M. to 5:00 P.M . (European centra l time) M onda y thro ugh F r ida y , or s [...]

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    Barra cuda A T A F amily I nstallati on Guide , Re v . A 33 Storing and shipping y our drive K eep your original bo x and pa c king ma terials f or storing or ship- ping y our d rive . The bo x has a Seagate App ro v ed P ackage label. Shipping a driv e in an unap prov ed con tainer v oids th e warr anty . Call y our autho rized Seagat e distrib ut[...]

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    34 Barracud a A T A F amily Installa tion Guide , Rev . A W a rranty See y our authoriz ed Seagate dis tributor or de aler . Preinstalled or b undled softw are is provid ed “as is .” There are no w arrantie s of merc hantabil ity or f itness for a particular pu r pose. All suc h wa rranties are e xpre ssly and s pecifica lly dis claimed . Maint[...]

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    Barra cuda A T A F amily I nstallati on Guide , Re v . A 35 3. Als V ersorgungs spann ugen werd en benöti gt: +5V ± 5 % 0,6A; +12V ±% 0,8A (1,9A fur ca . 30 Sek. fu r ± 10%) 4. Die V ersorgungss pannu ng mus s SEL V entspre chen. 5. Alle Arbei ten auf dem Fes tplatte dü rfen nur v on A usgebilde- tem Servicepers onal durchg eführ t werden. Bi[...]

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    36 Barracud a A T A F amily Installa tion Guide , Rev . A[...]

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    38 Barracud a A T A F amily Installa tion Guide , Rev . A Seagate T echnolog y , Inc. 920 Di sc Drive, Scott s V alley , CA 95066-4 544, USA Publication Num ber: 21200 135-0 01, R ev . A, Pr inte d in U SA[...]