Seagate 851SL, 1080SL, 540SL, 1270SL manual Transferring the software from the drive

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Transferring the software from the drive

Required materials:

∙Diskette Drive A

∙A bootable, blank, 1.2-Mbyte or larger diskette for Drive A

∙A bootable diskette with the Format command

Recent developments in drive technology have pushed drive capacities beyond the limits that many older computers using DOS can address. Seagate provides software that allows these computers to surpass the address limit and access your new drive’s full capacity. The software is stored on the drive at the factory and must be transferred to a diskette in Drive A before you partition and format the drive. The files stored on the drive include:

∙EZ-Drive. This is drive installation software that enables com- puters with BIOSs that restrict the hard disc capacity to 528 Mbytes to surpass the 528-Mbyte barrier.

∙SEG32BIT.386. This is a 32-bit disk access driver to replace the native Windows 32-bit disk access driver. It extends 32-bit disk access support to drive capacities above 528 Mbytes, multiple block read/write and PIO modes 3 and 4.

∙Seamove. This is a program that automatically copies the software and README files to a bootable diskette in Drive A. It removes the factory-installed partition and format when the files are copied.

∙README. This is a text file that contains information about the Seamove transfer program.