Drive configuration

10Hawk 2XL Family Installation Guide, Rev. C

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You can easily install your new Seagate disc drive as your first ever hard drive, a replacement or as a second drive in a com- puter system with an existing hard disc drive.

Installation involves the following steps:

•Drive configuration

•Mounting

•Informing the computer about your drive and how you want it divided into partitions.

Before you physically mount your new disc drive in your com- puter, you need to check the jumper plug settings that deter- mine how the drive operates. Refer to Table 1 to find the Figure specified applicable to your model drive for the particular con- figuration functions of interest. Note that there are some con- nector pins sticking out from the drive's printed circuit board (PCB) that are labeled J2 and J6 (called "jumper plug head- ers").

Model "W" additionally has J1-Auxiliary. Some systems may have a cable connected to J1-Auxiliary that allows remote set- ting of drive ID by switches or within the computer logic. It also provides a connection to a remote drive activity LED. Jumpers may be used on J1-Auxiliary.

Note the small jumper plugs connected across pairs of pins in some places on these connectors (Figures 3a through 3e show these jumper plugs enlarged).