Seagate Complete Guide to Installing Hard Drives and Jumper Settings

Barracuda 5400.1 Installation Guide

ST340015A and ST340015ACE

ATA Interface Disc Drives

Publication Number: 100264272, Rev. C, November 2003

The easiest way to install your drive

DiscWizardTM, available exclusively from Seagate, provides you with cus- tomized installation instructions for your hard drive. You can download Dis- cWizard for free from the Seagate web site at www.seagate.com/support or run the program directly from your web browser. In either case, you should run DiscWizard before you install your drive.

If you cannot run DiscWizard, follow the instructions on this installation sheet to install and configure your drive.

What you need

•A Phillips screwdriver and four 6-32 UNC drive mounting screws

•Forced-air ventilation to provide adequate drive cooling

•An ATA interface cable. For optimum drive performance and data integ- rity, we recommend using an 80-conductor Ultra ATA/100 cable (which can be identified by its blue, gray, and black connectors).

Handling precautions/Electrostatic discharge protection

•Disc drives are fragile. Do not drop or jar the drive. Handle the drive only by the edges or frame. Keep the drive in the protective SeaShellTM con- tainer until you are ready to install it to minimize handling damage.

•Drive electronics are extremely sensitive to static electricity. While installing the drive, wear a wrist strap and cable connected to ground.

•Turn off the power to the host system during installation.

•Do not disassemble the drive; doing so voids the warranty. Return the entire drive for depot service if any part is defective.

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

Breather filter hole precaution

Breather Hole

Do not cover

or seal.

Caution. Do not cover, seal, or insert any object into this hole. This hole has two purposes:

•To allow condensation inside the hard disc to escape

•To allow air pressure inside the hard disc to equalize with ambient pres- sure

Note. If this hole is covered, sealed, or penetrated by any object, the drive reliability may be compromised and could lead to permanent damage—doing so voids the warranty.

Installation instructions

1. Set the jumpers

Note. The instructions below assume that you are installing your new Seagate drive in a system that already has a working hard drive. To install the drive in a system that has no working hard drive, see the section titled, “What to do if you don’t have a working hard drive” located on back of this sheet.

a.Make sure that your existing drive is set up as a “master.” See the drive label or manufacturer’s web site for jumper settings.

b.Your new drive is shipped with a jumper in the “cable select” position. Set the drive as a “slave” by removing this jumper from the jumper pins. Save the jumper in case you ever need to reconfigure the drive.

Jumper settings for this drive are shown below

Drive is master or single drive

Drive is slave

Use cable select

Drive is master with non-

ATA-compatible slave

Master/slave jumpers (see table for key to jumper settings)

2. Mount the drive and attach cables

a.Slide the drive into a 3.5-inch drive bay. You can mount the drive in any orientation, but we recommend mounting with the circuit board down.

Note. To mount the drive in a 5.25-inch drive bay, you must purchase mounting brackets, available from your computer dealer.

b.Secure the drive using four 6-32 UNC mounting screws in either the side-mounting or bottom-mounting holes. Insert the screws no more than 0.20 inches (5.08 mm) into the bottom-mounting holes and no more than 0.14 inches (3.55 mm) into the side-mounting holes.

Caution. Do not overtighten the
screws or	use	metric		Existing
screws. This	may	dam-	BLACK	hard drive

age the drive. connector

c.Make sure the blue connector

on your Ultra ATA/100 cable is	Computer
plugged into the primary IDE
port on your computer’s moth-
	Motherboard
erboard or host adapter. See
your computer manual to deter-	Primary
mine the location of the primary
	IDE port	New
IDE connector.
		Seagate
d. Make sure the black connector		drive
		GRAY
on the cable is plugged into		connector

your existing hard drive.	BLUE
	connector

e.Plug the gray connector into your new Seagate hard drive.

Caution. When plugging in the interface cable, make

sure that pin 1 on the cable (indicated by a stripe along the edge) is attached to pin 1 on the drives and on the mother- board’s IDE connector.

f.Attach the 4-pin power connector to the drive. See figure below.

Key on cable connector

fits into slot on drive connector

Pin 1

Power connetor

Stripe on cable

Note. If your computer does not have an unused power cable for your new hard drive, you can purchase a Y-shaped power splitting cable from your computer dealer which effectively converts one power connec- tor into two.

3. Start up your computer

Close your computer case and restart your computer. your computer may automatically detect your new drive. If your computer does not automati- cally detect your new drive, follow the steps below.

a. Restart your computer.

b. While the computer restarts, run the System Setup program (some- times called BIOS or CMOS setup). This is usually done by pressing a special key, such as DELETE, ESC, or F1 during the startup process. c. Within the System Setup program, instruct the system to auto detect

your new drive.

d. Enable LBA and UDMA modes if the Setup program gives you this option.

e. Save the settings and exit the Setup program. When your computer restarts, it should recognize your new drive. If your system still doesn’t recognize your new drive, see the troubleshooting section on the back