Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product ST35130A Seagate
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2 b 3 a 3 M EDALIST H ARD D RIVE I NST ALLA TION G UIDE Medalist 6540 (ST36540A) Medalist 5130 (ST35130A) Medalist 3220 (ST33220A) for A T A (IDE)-Compatible PCs H ANDLE WITH C ARE ! Disc drives are extremely fragile.
Non-A T A compatible slave jumper If your computer does not recognize your new drive as a master in a two-drive system, the slave drive may not be A TA-compatible. Y ou may be able to solve this problem by installing jumpers on pins 5 and 6 and on pins 7 and 8, as shown in the illustration below.
M EDALIST H ARD D RIVE I NST ALLA TION G UIDE Medalist 6540 (ST36540A) Medalist 5130 (ST35130A) Medalist 3220 (ST33220A) for A T A (IDE)-Compatible PCs U SING D ISC W IZARD DiscWizard is a revolutionary new Windows program that makes it easy to install your Seagate Medalist ® drive.
H ANDLE WITH C ARE ! Disc drives are extremely fragile. Do not drop or jar your drive. W HA T Y OU N EED • Straight-edge and Phillips screwdrivers • Drive mounting screws • An A T A host adapter and inter face cable (max.
2 a 3 3A. I NST ALLA TION U SING D ISK M ANAGER 1 Boot your computer from a bootable DOS diskette (use MS DOS Version 5.0 or later). Booting from a diskette ensures that the Disk Manager installation does not conflict with any terminate-and-stay-resident (TSR) programs.
b 3 3 B . S T ANDARD DOS I NST ALLA TION ! Caution. Partitioning or formatting a drive erases all data on it. Seagate assumes no liability if you erase your data. Drive Partitioning Partitioning a hard drive divides it into sections (partitions) that behave as separate logical drives (labeled C, D, E, etc.
Non-A T A compatible slave jumper If your computer does not recognize your new drive as a master in a two-drive system, the slave drive may not be A T A-compatible. Y ou may be able to solve this problem by installing jumpers on pins 5 and 6 and on pins 7 and 8, as shown in the illustration below.
other peripheral cards, one at a time, until the conflict reccurs. After you have isolated the source of the address conflict, you can resolve the conflict by changing the I/O address of the peripheral that appears to cause the conflict.
pg y , , Windows 95, Windows NT 3.51, Window NT 3.50 (requires DM upgrade drivers), OS/2 V3.0 (Warp full pack), and OS/2 V2.0–3.0 (requires DM upgrade drivers). Before you install a non-DOS operating system on the drive, install DOS and Disk Manager and make sure that the drive is bootable.
py ! Caution. If you change the drive-type values in the system setup program, you must partition and format the drive again. This erases data on the drive. • If you have partitioned the drive into individual logical drives, you may need to make the partitions smaller to access the full drive capacity .
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