Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product ST39140A Seagate
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M EDALIST P RO H ARD D RIVE I NST ALLA TION G UIDE Medalist Pro 9140 (ST39140A) Medalist Pro 6530 (ST36530A) Medalist Pro 4520 (ST34520A) for A T A (IDE)-Compatible PCs T HE E ASIEST W AY TO I NST ALL Y OUR D RIVE DiscWizard is a revolutionary new Windows program that makes it easy to install your Seagate Medalist Pro 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 interface cable (max length:18 inches), and available 40-pin connector .
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.
• Check for I/O address conflicts. T o isolate the conflict, verify that the drive and host adapter are compatible with your computer . T ur n off the computer and remove all the peripheral adapter cards except for t he video card and host adapter .
S upported 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.
– Y ou entered a translation characteristic that does not take advantage of the drive’ s full capacity . – The drive’ s physical specifications exceed the translation limits imposed by the BIOS. ! Caution. If you change the drive-type values in the system setup program, you must partition and format the drive again.
2 b 3 a 3 M EDALIST P RO H ARD D RIVE I NST ALLA TION G UIDE Medalist Pro 9140 (ST39140A) Medalist Pro 6530 (ST36530A) Medalist Pro 4520 (ST34520A) for AT A (IDE)-Compatible PCs H ANDLE WITH C ARE ! Disc drives are extremely fragile. Do not drop or jar your drive.
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.
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