Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product ST3655N Seagate
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© 19 93 Seag at e Tech nology , Inc. All r ight s reser ved Publicat ion Numb er : 36235- 00 1, Re v. A Jun e 1993 Seag ate ® , Seag ate Techn ology ® , a nd the Seaga te logo ar e regist ered tradem arks of Seaga te T echnology, Inc. SeaFAX , SeaF ONE , Se aBOARD and SeaT DD are trad emar ks of Seag ate Technology , Inc.
Read before yo u begin... Appl icat ion. Your drive is de signed for IBM AT a nd com patible perso nal compu ters , Sun , Mac i n tosh and other SCSI syste ms.
Radi o and t elevisi on int erfere nce. This produc t complies wit h Class B limits for rad i o noise emissions fro m comp uter equip ment as set out in the radio int erfer ence r egulat ions of th e Canad i a n Depa rtmen t of Com mun icatio ns.
SCSI ID, install jum pers on the SCSI ID jum per b l o ck as sho wn in Figur e 1 on pag e 6. 2. Instal ling or remov ing ter min atin g resi stors. SCSI I/O ter minat ion consist s of thr ee res i s tor pa cks, called term ina- tor s, that plug i n to socket s on the printed cir cuit boa rd.
4. In stalling ju mpe rs on th e active /pass ive te rm ina tion jum per bloc k. If yo u rem oved the ter minat ing resist ors fr om the drive according to the instruct ions in step 2, skip this step.
Attaching c ables Ref er to Figure 1 on page 6 and Figur e 2 on p age 7 for the locat ions of the connec tors a nd jum per block s. 1. Tur n of f the syst em pow er.
4 3 SCSI ID = 0 SCSI ID = 1 SCSI ID = 2 SCSI ID = 3 SCSI ID = 7 SCSI ID = 4 SCSI ID = 5 SCSI ID = 6 MSB 2 1 J5. SCSI ID jumper block J4. Interface connector (pin 1) Circuit board Circuit board J3. DC power connector +5V +5V return +12V return +12V 1 2 3 4 Ground Signal 6 5 J9.
J8. User-configuration jumper block 11 12 9 10 7 8 5 6 3 4 13 14 1 2 Circuit board 1 –6 7 8 9 10 11 – 20 Reserved. Ext. spindle sync. Clock ground Remote LED + Remote LED – Reserved. Do not use.
6. At taching the 5 0-pi n SCSI inte rface cabl e. Att ach one end of the cable to the drive inter face conne ctor and the oth er end to the int erface connec tor on the h ost system mot herb oard or the host ad apter. If you are inst alling mult iple drives, use a daisy -chain cab le.
Interface connector Power connector Figur e 3. Recom mend ed m ounti ng or ient ations ST33 90N, ST365 5N Installa tion Guid e, Re v. A 9.
CMOS set up for AT systems When you start up you r drive f or t he first time, ent er t he CMOS SETUP rou tine . This rou tine enables you to def i n e a ne w drive in the system BIOS. Howe ver, becau se the SCSI h ost adap ter BIO S han dles all I/ O pro cedu res, yo u should not attem pt to define the drive type i n the sys tem BIOS.
If yo u choo se t o low-lev el forma t your drive, use the DOS DEBUG utilit y. Th e mos t comm on DEBUG low- level form atting comman d is g=c80 0:5. Verif y the BIOS addr es s (c800) and the offse t (5) with your host adapt er ma nual. Caut ion. If you form at a drive at a ny level, you era se all y our data.
To high -level f orm at t he drive, per for m the following oper ations: 1. Use the FO RMAT utility to high- level form at the dr ive. Refer to your DO S m anua l for the FORM AT com ma nd opt ions. 2. If you are form atting the boot drive, copy the necessar y system files to t he drive.
are n ot crimp ed or dam aged i n any way. Ke eping extr a ca bles on hand for troublesho oting saves time and frustrat ion. For ea ch ribbon cable, ve rify that pin 1 of the cable is mat ched to pin 1 of the con nector . Pin 1 is usually d enoted by a stripe on t he side of the r ibbon cable.
Befor e contin uing, caref ully read the prec eding checklis t. You nee d to ref er to the introd uctor y mater ial to effe ctively use the follo wing inform ation . The syst em do es no t reco gnize t he presenc e of the drive or sys tem er ror messa ge, “No Dri ves Foun d,” appears .
• Turn off the sys tem and wa i t 20 seconds. Turn i t back on and mak e sure the dr ive spins up. If the dr ive does no t spin up, ch eck the drive power cable. The scre en st ays b lank when you powe r up the syst em. • Make sur e the monit or is plug ged in and turne d on.
Dur ing th e DO S hig h-le vel form at, the dr ive ke eps ret ryin g har d error s and report ing the f ollo wing messag e. “Att empt - ing to recover al locati on uni ts.
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