User manual SEAGATE DIAMONDMAX 3400

[. . . ] This document is a condensed version of the full Product Reference Manual. Information that can be found in the ANSI specification is not included in this document to reduce its over all size. This condensed version is created to allow faster downloading from Maxtor's Internet home page and MaxFax services. This document contains 24 pages, the full document contains 68 pages. DiamondMaxTM 3400 91360D8, 91190D7, 91020D6, 90845D5 90680D4, 90510D3, 90340D2 Part #1399/A All material contained herein Copyright © 1998 Maxtor Corporation. [. . . ] If you don't understand the installation steps, have a qualified computer technician install the hard drive. DO NOT use any low-level formatting software on this drive. Handling Precautions Allow the hard drive to reach room temperature BEFORE installing it in your computer system. DO NOT touch the printed circuit board assembly. NEVER drop, jar, or bump the drive. DON'T connect/disconnect any drive cables when the power is on. Tools for Installation The following tools are needed to complete the installation of your Maxtor hard drive: x A small (#2) Phillips head screw driver x Small needle-nose pliers or tweezers x Your computer user's manual x For drive capacities 8. 4 GB or less, a DOS 5. 0 (or higher) or Windows 95 bootable system diskette x For drive capacities greater than 8. 4 GB, a Windows 95 bootable system diskette Capacity Barriers Due to operating system limitations, DOS cannot access the full capacity of drives larger than 8. 4 GB. The Microsoft Windows 95 operating system or equivalent (full installation), NOT a Windows 95 upgrade from DOS (Windows 3. 1 or 3. 11), is required to obtain the full capacity of any hard drive larger than 8. 4 GB. 4 ­ 15 INSTALLATION 2 Hardware, Software and BIOS Requirements System Hardware Requirements Maxtor does not recommend installing drives greater than 8. 4 GB in a 486 (50 MHz or slower), 286, 386 or older systems. Even if an EIDE interface card or drive management software are used the performance and reliability of the drive in older systems cannot be predicted. The minimum system recommended for drives 8. 4 GB and less is a 486 DX 66 MHz system. For drives larger than 8. 4 GB it is suggested that the minimum system be a Pentium class system. BIOS Requirements Most of the systems with newer BIOS; (typically with a date of July 1994 or newer) support large capacity drives. System BIOS dated prior to September 1997 do not provide support for drives greater than 8. 4 GB. To obtain the full capacity of a drive larger than 8. 4 GB either a BIOS upgrade, a BIOS enhancer card or the MaxBlast software (version 9. 06M or newer) will be required to correctly support the drive. Ultra Direct Memory Access (UDMA) In order to utilize the drives UDMA mode it is required that the mother board or interface card have the full UDMA chip set and the UDMA drivers provided by the manufacturer installed on the system. If the mother board or interface card does not have this capability then UDMA will not be available on the drive IMPORTANT ­ Operating System Requirements for Drives Larger than 8. 4 GB Due to limitations, DOS operating systems cannot access the full capacity of drives larger than 8. 4 GB. The Windows 95 full installation operating system or equivalent ­ NOT a Windows 95 upgrade from DOS (Windows 3. 1 or 3. 11) ­ is required to obtain the full capacity of any hard drive larger than 8. 4 GB. This means that the drive cannot be installed using a DOS operating system and then upgraded to Windows 95 or any subsequent release of this operating system, e. g. Windows 98. 4 ­ 16 INSTALLATION 3 Hard Drive Identification IDE stands for Integrated Drive Electronics and EIDE is Enhanced IDE. The IDE or EIDE interface is designed to support two devices ­ typically hard drives ­ on a single ribbon cable through one 40 pin connector on the mother board or interface card. Some mother boards and interface cards may have a second IDE/EIDE connector to support two additional IDE devices. The IDE/EIDE interface is identified as a primary or secondary interface. In systems with only a single connector on the mother board or interface card, it is the primary IDE/EIDE interface and requires a special interface card to add a secondary IDE/EIDE interface to the system. In systems with two connectors on the mother board or interface card, one is identified as the primary and the other as the secondary. The primary interface must be used for at least one IDE device before connecting any devices to the secondary IDE interface. The ribbon cable used is limited to a maximum length of 18 inches (per ANSI standards) and has two or three 40 pin connectors. This cable is referred to as a parallel cable and IDE devices may be connected any where on the cable. [. . . ] If the cylinder limitation jumper (J46) is installed or the BIOS does not support the hard drive, MaxBlast installation software must be used to prepare the hard drive. NOTE: All versions of DOS, PC-DOS, DR-DOS and Windows 95a (FAT 16 support) have a partition size limitation of 2. 1 GB. For drives larger than 2. 1 GB, the drive must be divided into partitions that do not exceed the 2. 1 GB limitation. Windows NT®, OS2®, UNIX®, LINUX and Novell NetWare® should not have this limitation but please refer to their documentation or contact the manufacturer to verify their support or limitations. [. . . ]