Maxtor 7131AT Installation Guide

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*v 7131A
131 MByte
Integrated AT Controller
Hard Disk Drive
Installation Guide
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Before You Begin
Maxtor disk drives are precision products. Failure to observe the precautions and guidelines outlined here may lead to product failure, damage, and invalidation of all warranties.
1.
BEFORE
unpacking or handling a drive, take all proper electro­static discharge (ESD) precautions, Including personnel equipment grounding. Stand-alone drives are sensitive to ESD damage.
2.
BEFORE removing drives from their packing material, allow them
to reach room temperature.
3.
During handling, NEVER drop, jar, or bump a drive.
4.
Once a drive is removed from the Maxtor shipping container,
MMEDlATELY secure the drive within a chassis. Otherwise,
store the drive on a padded, grounded, antistatic surface, with the PCBA parallel
5.
NEVER switch DC power onto the drive by plugging an electrically live DC source cable into the drive’s interface connector.
Please do not remove or cover up Maxtor factory-installed drive labels.
They contain information required should the drive ever need repair.
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not perpendicular-to that surface.
and
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Installation Steps
Install a 40-pin ribbon connector. The striped edge of this cable indicates
0
pin 1 and must be oriented towards pin 1 at the drive connector and at the host connector.
install a DC power connector.
cl
If AT BIOS supports a
cl
with these default parameters: If the AT BIOS does
P
choose parameters that closely match, but do not exceed, the drive’s formatted capacity.
The drive is now ready for partitioning and high-level formatting with any
cl
operating system. For example:
Partition the drive using the
3.3 or higher. High-level format the drive using the FORMAT command from
MS-DOS version 3.3 or higher.
Secure the drive in a suitable drive bay with 6-32 x
cl
Note: WPC and Landing Zone BIOS entries do not need a specific number for proper operation.
user-programmable
1002 cylinders, 8 heads,
not
support
a user programmable drive type,
FDISK
Maxtor
AT interface hard drives will ignore and override any
drive type, program the BIOS
and 32
command from MS-DOS version
1/4”
screws.
sectors.
Jumper locations
ti
Technical Notes
Q
Drive is low-level formatted with
with any defects retired to a dedicated, non-destructive zone.
P
Jumper
J25
factory reserved. Jumper J19 is a spare shunt.
cr Maxtor defines one
c
1:l
interleave at factory
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Jumper Designation
Cable Select
Disabled* Enabled
Write Cache
Enabled* Disabled
Drive Compatibility
Disabled*
Enabled
Master/Slave
Only drive in single drive system* Master in dual drive system Slave in dual drive system
Low Power Spin Mode
Disabled*
Enabled
ECC
11 -Byte*
4-Byte
emulation
I/O
Channel Ready
Option Disabled* Option Enabled
l
=
Default J = Jumpered 0 = Open.
Note: Jumper J25 factory reserved. Jumper
J24 J23
D J
1
J22
0 J
J19
is a spare shunt.
J20
J J D
J18
J17
J16
DC Power Connector
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Pin1=+12Vcc Pin 2 = +12 V Pin 3 = +5 V Ground Pin4=+5VDC
J2
3 2 1
Ground Return
\
Return
Interface and Power Connections
0 J
0
J
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0 J
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