User manual MAXTOR CHEETAH 36XL INSTALLATION

[. . . ] Do not drop or jar the drive and handle the drive only by the edges or frame. · Drive electronics are extremely sensitive to static electricity. Keep the drive in its antistatic container until you are ready to install it. Wear a wrist strap and cable connected to ground. [. . . ] For this reason, LC model drives cannot be configured to provide termination power to the bus. Drive with HDA up, PCB down, viewed from front J2 Pin 1 Reserved Positions Delay Motor Start option (valid only if the Enable Motor Start jumper is not connected) Disable the Delay Motor Start option. The drive starts the spindle motor when power is applied. Motor start delay equal to the SCSI ID multiplied by 12 seconds. 11 12 Pin 1 drive inoperable. A low level format, with verification, will typically take two hours. Protect against power failure or other power interruptions during the format. Boot the system from a system floppy, CD, or from a previously installed hard disc drive if there is one. Formatting a drive erases all user data. Be sure that you understand this principle before formatting any hard disc drive. It is not necessary to format a drive that previously has been used to store data, unless your intention is to erase all user data. Seagate is not responsible for lost user data. Cheetah disc drives are designed to operate with a variety of operating systems. Please refer to your system or SCSI controller manual for information about formatting and setting up the drive. Some quick desktop system notes are provided below. Set the drive type in CMOS to "Zero, " "None, " or "No hard drive installed. " Use FDISK. EXE and FORMAT. EXE. Systems using Windows 98 or later can create one single partition (drive letter) on the drive. Use a third-party drive utility (most revisions of Apple's HD Setup utility only work with drives having special Apple firmware). HDA J6 Reserved LR E EA A A A DS32 10 (default) Reserved Remote LED CATH Shipped with cover installed. Do not install jumpers on these four positions. J6 Drive Front J6 Jumper Motor Start option Disable motor start (default). The drive starts according to the Delay Motor Start option. The drive waits for the Start Unit command from the host before starting the spindle motor. Write Protect option Write protect = Off (enables writing). (default) (default) Pin 1 End Write protect = On (disables writing). Parity Check option Enable parity check of SCSI bus. [. . . ] See Figure 3. SCSI LVD bus segment Pin 1 (check your adapter for Pin 1 location) SCSI LVD/SE SCSI SE SPI-2 compliant active LVD external terminator on the end of the cable Twisted Pair LVD Cable Host Adapter PCB Active ALT2 external terminator at the end of the cable SCSI SE bus segment Warranty. Contact your place of purchase or our web site (above). Before returning the drive, verify that it is defective. Seagate Worldwide customer service centers are the only facilities authorized to service Seagate drives. [. . . ]