Seagate ST31270A manual Standard setup

18 Medalist 1270 Installation Guide, July 1995

Booting with a diskette after EZ-Drive is installed

To boot your computer with a diskette:

1.Boot the computer with the diskette-drive door open.

2.Press the CTRL key when the following message appears near the end of the boot sequence:

Hold the CTRL key down to boot from a floppy

3.Insert the boot diskette. The computer boots to the diskette drive.

Standard setup

1.Turn the computer on.

2.Enter System Setup. (Refer to your computer’s user’s guide. System Setup may be called Setup, BIOS Setup or CMOS Setup.)

3.Find the hard disc configuration in the System Setup screen.

4.Select a drive type that matches the drive translation geometry for your drive as shown in the table.

	CHKDSK	Translation geometry			CMOS
Model	2			Sectors	(Setup)
	Mbytes	Cyl	Heads		Mbytes3
				per track
ST31270A	1,282.8	2,485	16	63	1221

Note. CHKDSK and CMOS capacities are approximations. The capacities your computer reports may vary slightly.

If none of the standard drive types offered in System Setup match the translation geometry of your Seagate drive, select the user-defined or custom drive type, if available, and enter your drive’s translation geometry.

2.One Mbyte equals 1,000,000 bytes.

3.One Mbyte equals 1,048,576 bytes.