Dell Mini Tower System manual Installing Scsi Devices

10.If it is not already connected, connect the other end of the EIDE cable to the IDE1 connector on the system board.

CAUTION: You must match the colored strip on the EIDE cable with pin 1 on the IDE1 con- nector to avoid possible damage to your system.

To locate the IDE1 connector, see Figure 6-1.

11.Replace the computer cover. Then reconnect your computer and peripherals to their power sources, and turn them on.

12.Insert a bootable diskette (such as the Dell Diag- nostics Diskette) into drive A, and turn on the computer system.

13.Enter the System Setup program, and update the appropriate Drive category (0 or 1) under Drives: Primary.

See “Drives: Primary and Secondary” in Chapter 2. After you update the System Setup settings, reboot the system.

14.Partition and logically format your drive, as described in the next subsection, before proceed- ing to the next step.

15.Test the hard-disk drive by running the Hard- Disk Drive(s) Test Group in the Dell Diagnostics.

See your Diagnostics and Troubleshooting Guide for information on running the Dell Diagnostics and troubleshooting any problems that may occur.

16.Install your operating system on the hard-disk drive.

Refer to the documentation that came with your operating system.

Partitioning and Logically Formatting Your EIDE Hard-Disk Drive

EIDE hard-disk drives must be physically formatted, par- titioned, and logically formatted before they can be used to store data. Every hard-disk drive from Dell is physi- cally formatted before it is sent to you.

NOTE: On systems with hard-disk drives larger than

2 gigabytes (GB), create a primary partition of 2 GB and divide the remaining capacity into partitions of 2 GB or

less. For example, a system with a 2.5-GB hard-disk drive would have a primary partition of 2 GB (drive C) and a second partition of 500 megabytes (MB) (drive D). Hard-disk drives must be partitioned this way because MS-DOS–based operating systems (including Windows NT when using a file allocation table [FAT] 16 file system) do not support drive partitions larger than 2 GB.

To partition and logically format your hard-disk drive, use the program(s) offered by your operating system.

For MS-DOS, use the fdisk and format commands to perform these procedures. The fdisk and format com- mands are described in the MS-DOS reference documentation.

For OS/2, see the discussion on partitioning and logical formatting in the documentation that came with the oper- ating system.

CAUTION: If you format your hard-disk drive under the OS/2 High Performance File System (HPFS), you cannot reformat the drive for MS-DOS without losing all HPFS data. See your OS/2 documentation for details.

For Windows NT, see the discussion on partitioning and logical formatting in the documentation that came with the operating system.

CAUTION: If you format your hard-disk drive under the Windows NT File System (NTFS), you cannot reformat the drive for MS-DOS without los- ing all NTFS data. See your Windows NT documentation for details.

For the UNIX® operating system, refer to your UNIX documentation.

Installing SCSI Devices

To use SCSI devices in your Dell computer, you must have a SCSI host adapter card, which comes with its own SCSI cable. This cable can be used to attach a variety of SCSI devices (hard-disk drives, tape drives, and so on). The SCSI host adapter configures the devices attached to it as one subsystem—not as independent devices.

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