Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product ST36451A Seagate
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M EDALIST P RO H ARD D RIVE I NST ALLA TION G UIDE Medalist Pro 6450 (ST36450A) Medalist Pro 6451 (ST36451A) 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 new Seagate drive.
H ANDLE WITH C ARE ! Disc drives are extremely fragile. Do not drop or jar your drive. W HA T Y OU W ILL 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 3B. 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 function as separate logical drives (labeled C, D, E, etc.
Cable Select Jumper Some computers differentiate between master and slave drives using specially designed interface cables that have the line to pin 28 (the Cable Select pin) removed or cut at one connector . The connector that has pin 28 disabled is used for the slave drive.
video card and host adapter . If the computer recognizes the drive when you reboot the computer , turn off the computer . Reinstall the other peripheral cards, one at a time, until the conflict reoccurs.
Supported Operating Systems The Disk Manager dynamic drive overlay provides support for drives that have capacities greater than 528 Mbytes under MS-DOS, Windows 3. x, Windows 95, Windows NT 3.51, Window NT 3.50 (requires DM upgrade drivers), OS/2 V3.
py p p by the BIOS. ! 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 .
2 b 3 a 3 M EDALIST P RO H ARD D RIVE I NST ALLA TION G UIDE Medalist Pro 6450 (ST36450A) Medalist Pro 6451 (ST36451A) for A T A (IDE)-Compatible PCs H ANDLE WITH C ARE ! Disc drives are extremely fragile.
Cable Select Jumper Some computers differentiate between master and slave drives using specially designed interface cables that have the line to pin 28 (the Cable Select pin) r emoved or cut at one connector . The connector that has pin 28 disabled is used for the slave drive.
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