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Seagate ST9100A manual

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    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ST9 100A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ST9 100A G . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A T Interfac e Driv e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Installa tion Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [...]

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    Conten ts Read b e fo re you b egin... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Installati on overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Setting master/slave j umpers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Connecti ng cabl es . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Mounting the dri ve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Confi guring system BIOS .[...]

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    Read before you b egin... Note. ST910 0A an d ST91 00AG ar e u sually ins talled in no te - boo k or laptop syst ems. Spec ial training or tools ma y be nee ded t o se rvice these computer s. In some instan ces, ope ning the case may void yo ur warranty. Be s ure to review the terms and condit ions of your syste m warrant y befor e opening the syst[...]

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    han dle the d rive ca refully . I n add ition, d o not a ttach an y labels to the d rive to p cover , as they may prevent prop er ven tilation . 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 . Sea g a t e d riv e s d o no t re qu ir e an y p re ve n ti ve ma i n te n an[...]

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    Setting master /slave ju mpers T wo drives may be cont rolled t hrough a sing le drive controller cab le wit h two conne ctors. In this case, one drive is design ate d as the mas ter and the other is designa ted as the slave. As sho wn in Figu re 1 on page 4, the jum pers o n e ach dr ive mu st be set t o ident ify which dr ive is master and which [...]

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    Master/slave configuration jumpers Pin 1 Pin 20 removed for keying Circuit board A C B D Drive is master, no slave drive present Drive is master; Seagate slave drive present Drive is slave; Seagate master drive present Reserved position (Do not use) Figure 1. AT interf ace cable connect or and master/slave configurat ion jum pers 4 ST910 0A and ST9[...]

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    Moun ting t he drive Y ou may mount (and ope rate) the ST9100 A and ST910 0AG in any orient ation . Howeve r , you m ust s ecurely at tach the d rive to a rigid frame us ing four side-m ounting s crews or four botto m- mount ing screws. Caution. To a void dam aging the drive : • Use M3X0. 5 met ric m ounting scr ews only . • Do not insert mount[...]

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    cal Support services (on the SeaBO ARD BBS) as de scribed in Appe ndix C. The meth ods use d to configur e syst em BI OS vary from system to system. In many cases, you can r un a setup progra m from th e DOS pr ompt. In other cases, you must initiat e BIO S setu p by pressing certain k eys while t he system is bo oting up. Within the setup program [...]

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    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. I n t his cas e, consider the thir d option desc ribed on page 6 — allo win g you r ST9100 A o r ST9100 AG drive to mimic o ne of the BIOS- sup[...]

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    some d rive diagnos tic progr ams may fail, typically resulting in time- out e rrors . Cons ult you r sys tem do cumentat ion or call your system deale r or man ufa cturer for in formation o n configur ing you r system to rec eive 4 byte s of ECC. Formatt ing and part itionin g the d rive Caution. Refor matting o r repa rti tioning a drive that con[...]

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    driv e partitions . This proc ess verifies the inf orma tion writ ten by the low- level f ormat an d creates file allocat ion tables (used to catalog and acce ss files) . Consu lt your DOS man ual for FORM A T comm and o ption s. Du ring for mattin g, DO S syste m files sho uld be trans ferre d to one dis c partition (gen era lly the “C” drive [...]

  • Page 12

    • Check all cards. Make sure all c ards are secur ed in the ex pansio n slots on the mother boa rd. Fu ll size (16-bit) car ds ca nnot be plugg ed into half- size (8 -bit) slot s. Make su re all ca rds are plugge d into app rop riately sized ex pans ion slots . After the cards are perman ent ly inst alled and t he syste m is running prope rly, u [...]

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    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 – Ground IORDY SPSYNC:CSEL DMACK – Ground INTRQ IOCS16 – DA1 PDIAG – DA0 DA2 CS1FX – CS3FX – DASP – Ground *Indicates master-slave signals (deta[...]

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    Ap pendix B. Moun ting d im ension s 4X 3 mm × 0.5 mm, 0.15 in (3.81mm) min. full thread 0.000 2.430 ± 0.010 (61.72 ± 0.25) 0.000 1.227 ± 0.025 (31.17 ± 0.61) 3.986 ± 0.015 (101.24 ± 0.38) 1.500 ± 0.010 (38.10 ± 0.25) 4X 3 mm × 0.5 mm, 0.15 in (3.81 mm) min. full thread 0.079 (2.00) Pin 1 Pin 20 removed for keying 0.079 (2.00) 2.740 ± 0.[...]

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    Ap pendix C. Techn ical suppo rt services Pro duct technica l suppo rt is available for all Seaga te product s by calling t he SeaF AX, Sea FONE, SeaTDD an d SeaBO ARD se rv - ices descr ibed below . Thes e ser vices ar e free bu t long -dist anc e cha rges (if any) a re paid by th e user . SeaFAX. 408/438-2620 You ca n use a Touch -Tone te lephon [...]

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    • Repr ints of Seagat e docu mentation. • 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 progr am, wh ich can be very us eful in drive installa tion. It compa res the drive’s ge ometry with all geo metrie s su pporte d by yo ur system BIOS. This progr[...]

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    Seagate Technology, Inc. 920 Disc Dri ve, Scotts Valley, CA 95066, USA Publicati on Number: 36217-001, Re v. A, Printed in USA[...]