Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product ST9550AG Seagate
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© 1994 Sea gat e Techno lo gy, Inc. All rig hts reser ved Publicat ion Num ber : 3628 6-001, Rev . A Octo ber 19 94 Seag ate , Se agate T ec hnolog y an d the Seagate logo are regis- tered trade marks of Seag ate T echn ology , Inc. Sea F AX, Sea- FONE, Sea BOARD a nd Sea TDD are trad emark s of Sea gate T echn ology , Inc.
Read before you b egin ... Applicati on. Y our drive is designed for IBM A T an d compatible person al comp uters, p articular l y lapt op and no teb ook m odels. Warning. Turn off th e com puter (a nd, if you ha ve a n ote book or lapt op com pu ter, re move the ba ttery) bef ore you ope n the cas e or tou ch any interna l com ponent s.
you void the warran ty . Seagat e custom er service cent ers are the only facilities aut horized to repair Se agat e d rives . Seaga te doe s not s anction any third- party re pair facilit ies. Co nfigu ring the drive 1. Put on a grounded wrist str ap.
Master/slave configuration jumpers Circuit board Pin 1 Pin 20 removed for keying Note. Drive is shown with circuit board up. B D A C Drive is master; slave may be detected using DASP– signa.
1. Turn off the com puter and r emove the battery. 2. Put on a grounded w rist strap. 3. Open your comput er case. See your system man ual for inst ructions . Caution. Ope ning the case may v oid your com pu ter’s war ranty. 4. Connect the 44-pin interface/pow er cable.
0.747 ± 0.007 (18.97 ± 0.18) 4X 3 mm × 0.5 mm × 0.15 in. (3.81 mm) deep min. full thread (2 each side) 1.375 ± 0.015 (34.93 ± 0.38) 0.118 ± 0.010 (3.00 ± 0.25) 4.020 (102.11) max (head/disc assembly to tip of pins) 1.500 ± 0.
app lication, y ou must use MCC-com pa tible connect ors and moun ting hardwar e. If the mou nting h oles in your compu ter do not li n e up wit h the mounting holes on the driv e, you r comput er m ay not be MCC- compatible.
T o enter thes e driv e spe cificat ions int o yo ur syst em BIOS, follow these steps: 1. Turn on your computer. 2. Run the system setup program. This program config ures the syst em BIOS to r ecog nize your drive . In s ome comput ers you run the system setup program by pressing special keys while the com pu ter is bo oting u p.
progr am does n ot allow you to s pecify a custo m drive type, yo ur drive may be able to emula te any of the predefin ed drive types. Se lect a prede fined d rive type that has a BIOS ca lculate d capa city less than or equ al to th at of you r drive (as shown in the table on page 6).
Formatt ing and part itionin g the d rive Caution. Fo rmatting or pa rtitioning a dr ive that co ntain s dat a des troys that data. Make su re all data has been safely bac ked up b efore repart itioning or ref ormat ting a drive that contains dat a. Seagate Technology assu mes no liabilit y for lost d ata.
High-level formatting High- level for mattin g verif ies the informat ion writt en by the low- level format a nd creat es file allocat ion tables used to catalog an d acc ess files. 1. Run the FO RMAT program. In sert a DO S prog ram diske tte con taining the FORM AT progra m into your disket te drive.
• Verify hardwar e compati bility. Che ck the do cument atio n for your drive , ho st adap ter an d comp uter to confirm that these co mponen ts are com patib le. • Verify your hardware configurat ion. Check the docum en- tation for your drive, host ad apter and co mpute r to con firm that all jum pers are s et app ropriat ely.
a time, until the conflict reapp ears. Afte r you have isolated the so urce of the address conflic ts, you can resolve the conflict by cha nging the I/ O ad dress of the periph eral that appear s to ca use th e conf lict.
• Power do wn the com puter and remov e the drive host adapt er. If the scre en comes o n after you reboot, the host adapte r may be incomp atible or de fective. If so, see your dealer . At startup, the computer does not recognize the presence of the dri ve.
The dealer partitioned and high-level formatted the drive for you in the store. Later , you installed the drive and it does not wor k. • Rebo ot the com puter and m ake su re th e drive spins up. • Chec k all cables . • Chec k the powe r supp ly.
• The FDISK program on your DOS utilit ies diske tte m ay b e co rrupted. Try runn i ng t he pr ogram from a diffe rent disket te. • If you are using a vers ion of DOS prior to Version 4.0, mak e the drive partitions smaller than 32 Mb ytes. • T ry an oth er dr ive ty p e or tra ns la tio n ge o m et ry .
the full c apac ity of the drive, a nd a use r-def ined d rive typ e is no t available, use a t hird-pa rty partitioning utility. • Run FDISK a gain a nd mak e the partitio ns sm alle r. If you ar e us ing a ve rsion of DOS prior to Version 4.0, mak e the drive pa rtitions smaller than 32 Mbyte s.
Compatib ility not es • The ST9655 fam ily drives confor m to the ATA interf ace speci- fication s. The hos t syst em BIO S m ust provide suppor t for the ATA int erfac e co mman d se t.
Techn ical suppo rt services Always co nsult your disc drive or compu ter dealer firs t for tech- nical s uppo rt. Y o ur dealer has fir st-ha nd exper ience with a wid e variety of system configu rations.
SeaBOARD Using a mo dem , you ca n: • Acce ss docu menta tion, drive specif i cation s and jumper se ttings for Seagat e’s entire pro duct line. • Downloa d softwa re f or in stalling and a nalyzing you r drive. • Requ est a return pho ne call from the technical supp ort staf f.
Storin g and sh ipping your dr ive Keep your original box and p acking mate rials for storing or shipp i ng you r drive. The box ha s a Seaga te Appro ved Pa ckage label. Shipping a drive i n an unappr ove d containe r vo ids the war ranty . Call your authorize d Seaga te distribu tor to purchas e add itional bo xes.
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Seagate Technology, Inc. 920 Disc Dri ve, Scotts Valley, CA 95066, USA Publicati on Numb er: 3628 6-001, Re v. A, Prin ted in USA.
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