Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product ST9235A Seagate
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ST923 5 Family: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ST9 080A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ST9 145A , ST 914 5A G . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Conten ts Read b e fore you begin.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Installati on overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Setting master/slave j umpers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Connecti ng cabl es . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Read before you b egin ... Note. Drive s in the ST923 5 family are usua l ly in stalled in note- boo k or lapt op systems. Spec ial training or tools may be nee ded t o se rvice these comput ers. In some ins tan ces, ope ning the case may void yo ur warranty.
W arrant y . Con tact you r aut horized Se agate distribu tor or dealer for warr ant y infor mation . Maintenance and repai r . Se a ga t e dr ive s do no t req u ir e an y p re ve n ti ve mai nte n a nc e . Th e he a d /d i sc as s em bly i s se al ed an d d oe s n ot c o nt ain an y u se r -s er vic e ab l e co mp o ne n ts .
Setting master /slave jum pers T wo drives may be cont rolled thro ugh a sing le drive contro ller cab le wit h two conne cto rs. In this case, one drive is design ated as the mas ter and the other is designa ted as the slave .
Master/slave configuration jumpers Circuit board Pin 1 Pin 20 removed for keying Drive is master; no slave present Drive is master; Seagate slave drive present Drive is slave; Seagate master drive present Reserved positions (do not use) Note. Drive is shown with circuit board up.
Moun ting t he drive Y ou can moun t ( and oper ate) a ST9 235 fam ily drive in an y orie ntation. Howeve r, you must securely a ttach the d rive to a rigid frame using four side- mo untin g screws o r four bot tom- mount ing screws. Caution: To avoid d amaging the d rive: • Use M3X0.
driv e types your BIOS suppo rts. Anothe r meth od is to run the FINDTYPE. EXE utilit y pro gram, a vailable from Se agate T echni- cal Support services (on the SeaBOARD BBS) as descr ibed in Appe ndix C. The meth ods use d to configur e system BIOS vary from system to system .
table above. This value will be lower than the usable drive cap acity . In a few situa tions, no ne of the drive types s pecif ied in your BIOS setup progr am will matc h your drive, an d the set up pr ogram will not provide a n opp ortunity to sp ecify a cust om driv e type.
you r system BIOS may look for 4 b ytes of ECC. If your system BIOS exp ects 4 bytes of ECC an d the drive su pplies a d iffer ent numbe r of bytes, so me dr ive diagno stic program s may fail, typically r esu lting in time-out errors .
High-level formatting Once th e drive is partitione d, use the DOS FORMA T comman d (or equ ivalent utility program ) to high -leve l for mat each of the driv e p artitions . This process verifies the informa tion written by the low-le vel format and creat es file allocat ion tables (used to catalog and access files).
loca tion. M ake sure pin 1 on the int er face ca ble connec tor is co nnected to pin 1 on the drive in terface co nnec tor and pin 1 on the host connec tor. Refer to Figure 1 on page 4 for the loca tion of pin 1 on the drive inter face connect or. • Check all cards.
Ap pendix A. AT interface conn ector pin assign ments Reset – Ground DD7 DD8 DD6 DD9 DD5 DD10 DD4 DD11 DD3 DD12 DD2 DD13 DD1 DD14 DD0 DD15 Ground (removed) DMARQ Ground DIOW – Ground DIOR – Grou.
Ap pendix B. Moun ting d im ension drawings 4X 3 mm × 0.5 mm 0.15 in (3.81 mm) min. full thread 1.375 ± 0.015 (34.93 ± 0.38) 0.066 ± 0.020 (1.68 ± 0.51) 0.100 ± 0.010 (2.54 ± 0.25) 4.010 (101.85) max 1.500 ± 0.010 (38.10 ± 0.25) 0.000 1.227 ± 0.
0.157 ± 0.020 (3.99 ± 0.51) 0.146 +0.011, –0.008 (3.71 +0.28, –0.20) 4X 3 mm × 0.5 mm, 0.15 in (3.81 mm) min full thread 0.000 2.590 (65.79) 0.000 4.010 max (101.85) 2.875 (73.03) 4X 3 mm × 0.5 mm, 0.15 in (3.81 mm) min full thread 0.079 (2.00) pin spacing Pin 1 0.
Key to mounting specifications: non-MCC mount MCC mount 0.750 (19.05) max 4X 3 mm × 0.5 mm 0.15 in. (3.81 mm) min. full thread 1.375 ± 0.015 (34.93 ± 0.38) 0.066 ± 0.020 (1.68 ± 0.51) 0.039 ± 0.020 (0.99 ± 0.51) 0.230 ± 0.010 (5.84 ± 0.25) 0.
Ap pendix C. Techn ical suppo rt services Pro duct technica l suppo rt is available for all Seaga te products b y calling t he SeaF AX, Sea FONE, SeaTDD an d SeaBO ARD se rv - ices d escr ibed b elow . These ser vices a re free, but long -distanc e cha rges (if any) a re paid by th e user .
• A dire ctory of inf ormation an d helpful utilit y progr ams that yo u can downloa d to your o wn c omput er. • The FI NDTYPE.EXE utility program , wh ich can be very us eful in drive installa tion. It compa res the drive’s ge ometry with all geome tries suppor ted by your system BIOS.
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