Seagate ST31270A manual Medalist 1270 Installation Guide, July

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verify that the drive and host adapter are compatible with your computer by removing all the peripheral adapter cards (power must be off) except for the video card. Then reinstall the drive and host adapter card. If this is successful, reinstall the other peripherals one at a time until the conflict reoccurs.

After you have isolated the source of the address conflicts, you can resolve the conflict by changing the I/O address of the peripheral that appears to cause the conflict.

∙If your drive was installed with EZ-Drive, the special instruction in the boot sequence on Drive C may have been bypassed. Remove the diskette and reboot. For instructions on how to boot with a diskette, see the section “Booting with a diskette after EZ-Drive is installed” on page 18.

∙If the computer does not recognize the slave drive after power-on, the slave may not be communicating with the master during the boot cycle. Try reconfiguring the drives using the master/slave timing protocol jumpers discussed on page 8.

The dealer partitioned and high-level formatted the drive for you in the store. Later, you installed the drive and it does not respond.

∙Reboot the computer and make sure the drive spins up.

∙Check all cables.

∙Make sure the power supply is adequate for system needs.

∙Use the same version of DOS within all partitions. Make sure the DOS version the dealer used to partition and high-level format the drive is the same as the version you have installed on your computer. If it isn’t, see your dealer.

∙Verify the System Setup drive-type value. You must install the drive using the same drive type or translation geometry that your dealer used to partition the drive.

∙Check for I/O address conflicts between peripheral cards.

∙Check for viruses.