Seagate MEDALIST 4342, MEDALIST 2122, MEDALIST 3232 INSTALLATION GUIDE

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Medalist 4342 (ST34342A)

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Medalist 3232 (ST33232A)

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Medalist 2122 (ST32122A)

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Installation Guide

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Contents

The easiest way to install your drive.................................... 1

What you nee d ... .. ... ......... .......... .......... .......... ......... .......... ...... 2

Before you begin .................................................................... 2

Handling precautions............................................................. 3

One drive or two..................................................................... 4

Attaching cables and mounting the drive....................... ..... 6

Configuring your computer ................................................... 9

Addressing drive capacity lim it ations........................ ........11

Installation using Disk Manager ......................................... 14

Standard DOS installation ................................................... 16

Additional installation options............................................ 18

Non-ATA compatible slave jumper .................................... 18

Cable select jumper.......................................................... 19

Advanced Disk Manager options........................................ 20

Troubleshoot ing ................................................................... 23

Alternate capacity jumper................................................. 25

Seagate Technology support services............................... 31

Storing and shipping your drive ......................................... 38

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The easiest way to install your drive

DiscWizard is Seagate’s exclusive Windows program that makes it easy to install your Medalist

DiscWizard helps you configure your new drive and your computer. It analyzes your system, lets you select various installation options and creates customized st ep-by-step instructions. It also allows older computers to access the ful l capacity of larg e hard drives.

You can run DiscWizard to install you r new hard drive if:

You already have an existing, bootable hard dr ive in your com-

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puter with at least 3 Mbytes of available disc space, You are running Windows 3.x or Windows 95.

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If you can run DiscWizard

DiscWizard diskette to install your drive. If you need additional information, refer to this installation guide.

If you cannot run DiscWizard,

installation guide to install and configure your new drive.

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drive.

and

, follow the instructions on the

follow the instructions in this

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What you need

Straight -edge and Phillips scr ewdrivers

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Four 6-32 UNC drive mounting screws

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An AT A interface cable (max length: 18 inches) with

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available 40-pin connector. An unused drive power cabl e for your ne w drive

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A bootable system diskette

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If you are mounting this 3.5-inch drive in a 5.25-inch drive bay,

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you need a mounting adapter or frame kit. Also, you may need drive mounting rails if your drive bay is not designed for direct mounting.

Before you begin

Make sure your computer is turned off before you open the

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case. Read the handling precautions at the right and inspect the

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drive to make sure that it is not damaged. Save your foam-lined Seagat e disc drive box. This box has

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been approved by Seagate for shipping a Seagate disc drive. Using any other container or packing material voids your drive warranty.

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Handling pr ecau tio ns

Disc drives are extremely fragile. Do not drop or jar your drive.

Keep the drive in its antistatic bag until you are ready to i nstall it.

Protect your drive from static discharge by making sure you are well grounded before touching the drive. We recommend wearing a grounded wrist strap throughout the installation process. Do not touch the connectors or any part of the printed circuit board.

Always handle the drive by its edges or frame.

Do not apply pressure or attach labels to the circuit board or the top of the drive.

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One drive or two?

If your new Seagate drive will be the only drive in your computer, you do not have to change any jumper settings. In this case, skip ahead to “Attaching Cables and Mounting the Drive,” on page 6.

If you already have one hard drive in your computer and you are installing a second dri ve, you must co nfi gure one drive as a mas ter and the other as a slave.

T o configure the drive as a master or one drive only:

Place a jumper on pins 5 and 6 (see Figure 1 on page 5).

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The master drive will be the “boot” drive (drive C), from which the computer loads system software when it first starts up.

T o configure the drive as a slave

Remove all t he jumpers.

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If you need to change the jumpers on your existing hard drive,

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see the Disk Manager online manual, look on the drive l abel, or contact the drive manufacturer.

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40-pin ATA

interface

pin 1

connector

4-pin power

connector

Slave Master or single drive

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Figure 1. Master and sla ve jumper settings

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Attaching cables and mounting the drive

If you are installing a new ATA interface cable, attach one end

of the cable to the interface connector on your computer or host adapter. The ATA cabl e must be no more than 18 inches long.

Thread the interface cable through the drive bay and attach the connector at the end of the interface cable to your new drive. If you have two drives, attach the second drive to the second connector.

Pin 1

Figure 2. Attaching the cables

Caution.

sure to al ign pin 1 on the com puter or h ost adapter wit h pin 1 on your drive or drives. Pin 1 on the interface cable is usually indicated by a str ipe along the edge of the cable.

To avoid damaging the connector pins, make

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Figure 3. Mounting screws

Slide the drive carefully into the dr ive bay. Secure the drive with four 6-32 UNC mounting screws in either the sidemounting holes or the bottom-mounting holes. Do not overtighten the screws. Insert the screws no more than 0.22 inch into the bottom-mounting holes and no more than 0.14 inch into the side-mounting holes. Do not use metric screws.

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Power connector

Interface connector

Pin 1

Figure 4. Interface cable connection Note.

If you are mounting the drive in a 5.25-inch drive bay, you need a mounting adapt er or frame kit. Contact your computer dealer. Some computers also require drive mounting rails, which can be obtained from your distributor or computer manufacturer.

Attach a power cable to each dr ive. If your computer does not

have an unused power connector, you can purchase a Yshaped power cable from your com puter dealer.

Check all cable connections and then replace your computer

cover. Continue to “Conf iguring Your Computer.”

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Configuring your computer

Before you format or partition y our new drive, you must configure your computer’s BIOS so that the computer can recognize your new drive.

Turn your computer on. As your computer st arts up, watch the

screen for a message that describes how to run the syst em setup program (also called BIOS or CMOS setup). This is usually done by pressing a special key, such as

, during startup. See your computer manual for details.

Press the appropriate key to run the system setup.

Enable LBA mode if it is available. Many BIOS use the logical

block addr essing (LBA) mode to access drive s with capacit ies great er than 5 28 Mbyte s.

If your BIOS provides automatic drive detection (an “Auto” drive type), select this option. This allows your computer to configure itself automatically for your new drive.

If your BIOS does not provide automatic drive detection, select “User-defined” drive settings and enter the CHS values from the tabl e on page 10.

Save the settings and exit the System Setup program (your computer will automatically reboot).

DELETE, ESC

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BIOS Settings

Drive Cylinders Heads Sectors

ST34342A

CHS addressing Addressable sectors

8,894 8,404,830

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ST33232A

CHS addressing Addressable sectors

6,253 6,303,024

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ST32122A

CHS addressing Addressable sectors

Note.

Set the

write precomp

4,092 4,124,736

landing zone

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parameters

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to zero.

Recommendation

We recommend you use Disk Manager to partition and format your driv e, espec iall y if yo ur computer was b uilt befor e mid-1994 . See page 14 for information on

If you

want to use Disk Manager, you can use the stan-

do not

dard DOS commands to partition and format your drive, as described on page 16.

Installation using Disk Manager

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Addressi ng dr ive-capacit y li mita tions

Some DOS-based computers and operating systems are not designed to accommodate large-capacity hard disc drives. The three most common system limitations are listed below, along with methods for overcoming these limitations. See your system manual to determine which (if any) of these limitations applies to your computer.

528-Mbyte limit

The BIOS in som e older computers cannot accommodate drives with capacities greater than 528 Mbytes. Seagate provides free Disk Manager software with your drive to overcome this limitation. Alternatively, you can purchase a hard drive controller or a BIOS upgrade that supports drives with capacities greater than 528 Mbytes.

The 32-bit disk access feature in Windows 3.1 does not work with drives that have capacities greater than 528 Mbytes. If you want to use 32-bit disk access with Windows 3.1, see the file, SEG32BIT.TXT, located on your DiscWizard diskette, for further informat ion.

4,092-cylinder limit

The BIOS in some computers cannot suppor t drives that have more than 4,092 cylinders (approximately 2.1 Gbytes).

install a drive with more than 4,092 cylinders in one of these computers, t he computer may “freeze” or fail to boot

this problem, see “Additional Troubleshooti ng Tips” on page 24 for more information.

If you

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