Seagate ST36451A, ST36450A manual Medalist PRO Hard Drive Installation Guide

MEDALIST PRO HARD DRIVE

INSTALLATION GUIDE

Medalist Pro 6450 (ST36450A)

Medalist Pro 6451 (ST36451A)

for ATA (IDE)-Compatible PCs

USING DISCWIZARD

DiscWizard™ is a revolutionary new Windows program that makes it easy to install your new Seagate drive. DiscWizard helps you configure your new drive and your computer. It ana- lyzes your system, lets you select various installation options and creates customized step-by-step instructions. It also al- lows older computers to access the full capacity of your drive.

You can run DiscWizard to install your new hard drive if:

•You already have an existing, bootable hard drive in your computer with at least 3 Mbytes of available disc spaceand

•You are running Windows 3.x or Windows 95.

If you can run DiscWizard, you do not have to read this instal-

lation guide. Instead, before you install your new drive, follow the instructions on the DiscWizard diskette to install your drive. DiscWizard provides all the information you need to install your new drive.

If you cannot run DiscWizard, follow the instructions in this installation guide to install and configure your new drive. For additional information and troubleshooting

tips, see the back of this sheet. This symbol: indi- cates that additional information on a topic appears on the back of this sheet.

1. ONE DRIVE OR TWO?	ATTACHING CABLES AND MOUNTING THE DRIVE
If your new Seagate® Medalist ®Pro drive will be the only drive in	1 If you are installing a new ATA interface cable, attach one
your computer, you do not have to change any jumper settings.	end of the cable to the interface connector on your com-
In this case, skip ahead to “Attaching Cables and Mounting the	puter or host adapter. The ATA cable must be no more than
Drive.”	18 inches long.
If you already have one hard drive in your computer and you	2 Thread the interface cable through the drive bay and attach
are installing a second drive, you must configure one drive as a	the connector at the end of the interface cable to your new
master and the other as a slave. The master drive will be the	drive. If you have two drives, attach the second drive to
“boot” drive (drive C), from which the computer loads system	the second connector.
software when it first starts up. To configure your new Seagate
drive as the master, slide a jumper onto pins 7 and 8 (see be-
low). To configure the drive as a slave, slide a jumper onto pins	Pin 1
5 and 6 only. The jumper on pins 6 and 8 is a spare and does
not affect drive operation. If you need to change the jumpers on
your existing hard drive, see the Disk Manager online manual,
1or contact the drive manufacturer.

		pin 1
4-pin power	2	4		8
connector			6
	1	3	5	7

One drive only

Drive is Master with an ATA- compatible slave

40-pin ATA

interface

connector

Master/slave jumper block

!Caution. Make sure to align pin 1 on the com- puter or host adapter interface connector with

pin 1 on your drive or drives. Pin 1 on the interface cable is usually indicated by a stripe along the edge of the cable.

Drive is slave

Spare jumper