Atlas 10k V Installation Guide
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1. information Be sure to secure the drive to the device bay with all four screws The drive should be oriented with its printed circuit board facing down Mounting Screws Handling Precautions Allow the drive to reach room temperature before installing it in the computer Do not open the ESD bag until youOre ready to install the drive Handle the drive by its sides Do not touch the circuit board electronics Do not connect disconnect any drive cables while your computer is turned on Do not drop jar or bump the drive Pin 1 Y a ON Pin 2 A SCSI ID 0 p FAULT LED Scsi ID 1 4 E GROUND SCSI ID 2 dE GROUND SCSI ID 3 qf BUSY LED NOT USED JE GROUND 5V J R TERM POWER J Ao f A Pin 11___y 4 Pin Power Connector e 12 Pin Option Connector 68 Pin SCSI Connector m SystenVOS Requirements A full version of your operating system OS is required for a new hard drive installation see kit package for details Tools for Installation The following tools are needed to install your new Maxtor hard drive Small Phillips head screw driver Small pair of pliers or tweezers Your computer user manual Operating system software SCSI ID 3 SCSI ID 2 SCSI ID 1 SCSI ID 0 BUSY LED WRT PROTECT STAGGER SPIN DELAY SPIN SINGLE ENDED Note Maxtor LVD SCSI drives do not support on board termination Maxtor recommends the use of Active LVD terminato2. 6 A3 7 8 The jumper pairs will allow configuration of SCSI ID s 0 to 15 All SCSI devices must have an individual ID on the SCSI bus there is no Master Slave set ting SCSI ID 7 is usually reserved for the SCSI host adapter Fault LED and Busy Out Jumpers Typical installations do not require the use of the Fault LED and Busy Out jumpers The Busy Out signal is usually supplied through the PCI bus to the PC motherboard s Busy indicator LED If connecting the Busy Out jumper for a drive installed in an external case please refer to the wiring documentation sup plied by the manufacturer of the case Connection of the Fault LED is not recommended in internal or external installations Mounting Bracket Computer with available 5 25 inch device bay 4 C a b e Cable Connections for SCSI Drive Hook up Attach the SCSI and Power Cables If the Maxtor SCSI drive is the only device attached to the SCSI adapter card attach the drive at the end of the Ultra LV D SE cable farthest from the SCSI adapter card This connector has a beveled edge and will only fit one way Then attach an external active LVD SE SCSI terminator 68 pin Connector 68 pin Drive Please refer to the SCSI adapter card user guide Connector for additional recommendations on data cable place No ment and SCSI termination requirements Attach a power cable to the power connector on the hard drive This connector is keyed and w
3. SCSI Hard Drive Installation G uide Pre Installation T hank you for sdecting a Maxtor hard drive storage produc Maxtor s goal is to provide you with the most up to date produc possible and we are nstantly enhandng our software and doaumentation to better meet your neads Please visit our web site at www maxtor com to view the latest that Maxtor has to offer Drive Jumper Setup Configure the Drive J umpers If specific jumper options are needed for your system configuration refer to the illustrations and definitions provided in this section SCSI ID Jumper Settings Drive ID DO D1 ID2 D3 D4 D5 D6 D7 D8 D9 ID 10 ID 11 ID 12 ID 13 ID 14 ID 15 Maxtor SCSI drives typically ship from the factory with jumpers set to SCSI ID 6 and termination power jumped SCSI ID 7 is usually reserved for the SCSI host adapter Attention The Rear Jumper Option Connector is an OEM specific con nector Most installations will never use the jumper options on this connector Always configure the drive using the jumpers at the Front Jumper Option Connector Drive Install Installing Drive Inside of Y our Computer System Make sure your computer is powered down before installing the drive The following illustrations are of typical computer systems and hard drive mounting styles Your computer may have a different mounting style Please refer to your computer user manual for more
4. al installa tion floppies you can create them using your Windows installation CD Windows XP Boot your system from the Windows XP installation CD to partition and for mat the drive If your system is not capable of booting from a CD you can download bootable Windows XP installation floppies from Microsoft s website at www microsoft com Macintosh Most non Apple branded hard drives can be formatted using the Drive Setup utility included in Mac OS 8 6 and above Mac OS versions before 8 6 will require a third party hard drive utility such as FWB Hard Disk Toolkit www fwb com or Intech Hard Disk SpeedTools www intechusa com to partition and initialize the drive Please visit the FWB or Intech website for details on these non Maxtor software products Changes are periodically made to the information herein D which will be incorporated in revised editions of the publication Maxtor may make changes or improvements in the product s described in this publication at any time and without notice Copyright 2001 Maxtor Corporation All rights reserved Printed in the U S A 12 01 Maxtor is a regis tered trademark of Maxtor Corporation Other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders www maxtor com
5. ill only fit one way Check all other cable connections before you turn on the computer Ultra LVD SE Cable Caution Do not force or rock the connectors into their sockets on the hard drive Push them in straight until they are seated firmly Power Supply Cable 3 Pin or 4 Pin i lann Atang a Connect to SCSI Host LVD SE Adapter Cable BS Card Active LVD Terminator Standard Cabling for Single SCSI Drive in System Ultra LVD SE cable connections Partitioning Product Formatting Registration Maxtor hard drives can accept nearly all l operating systems Some operating sys Take Adva ntage of the Benefits tems have volume size limitations that may require you to partition your drive into multiple volumes Please refer to product updates special offers and your system or SCSI adapter card user other valuable information about other guide for information about formatting data storage solutions from Maxtor and partitioning the drive Simply point your web browser to Sv www maxtor com go to the General Guidelines product registration page and com DOS Windows 9X ME plete the short questionnaire Use FDISK EXE to partition and FORMAT COM to format the drive By registering your new Maxtor prod uct youll have the option to receive Windows NT 2000 Boot your system from the installa tion floppy disks provided with the OS to partition and format the drive If you do not have the origin
6. rs and 68 pin twisted pair cabling SCSI host adapter manufacturers usually supply proper cabling and termination with the purchase of an LVD SCSI host adapter Computer with available 3 5 inch device bay Installing 5 25 inch Mounting Brackets If the hard drive will be installed in a 5 25 inch device bay attach mounting brackets available separately to the hard drive as shown in the figure below Mounting Screws Backup Your Data Maxtor highly recommends that you make a backup copy of your files before installing the new Maxtor hard drive Please refer to your computer user manual for more information Other J umper Settings TP Termination Power 12 Pin Option Connector Pins 11 12 Termination power ensures that there is a sufficient power level along the entire SCSI bus It is recommended that the final device on the SCSI bus have the Termination Power jumper installed All devices in between the host and final device typically have no jumper on Termination Power Note that Termination Power is not the same as on board termination which this drive does not support SS Stagger Spin Pins 13 14 For most configurations this option is not utilized Most current SCSI host adapters offer a Start Unit command enable or disable which supersedes the functionality of the SS jumper setting When the Delay Spin DS jumper is enabled on the drive the Start Unit command from the SCSI host adapter will send Star
7. t Unit commands to all devices on the bus at pre determined intervals This can help prevent power supply overload when running several devices on the SCSI bus WP Write Protection Pins 11 12 By factory default the drive is shipped with no jumper on these pins and the drive can be written to unless protected by application software With the pins jumped the drive can be used as a read only device This feature prevents accidental overwrites and is useful for frequently accessed archives and reference files Force SE DForce Single Ended Operation Pins 17 18 By factory default the drive is shipped with no jumper on these pins With most system configurations it is not necessary to use this jumper LVD drives are multi mode capable They will automatically detect the presence of a sin gle ended bus and revert to single ended mode DS Delay Spin Disable Delay Spin No jumper across pins 15 16 factory default Disabling Delay Spin allows the drive to spin up when the system is powered up Enable Delay Spin Jumper across pins 15 16 This setting will prevent the drive from spinning up until it receives a Start Unit command from a SCSI host adapter Most SCSI host adapters have the Start Unit command enabled by default in the host adapter BIOS Enabling Delay Spin is only necessary when you are starting multiple devices at power on SCSI ID Pin numbers 1 8 are typically referred to in pairs as AO pins 1 and 2 A1 3 4 A2 5
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