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Setup: Seagate U4 EIDE Hard-Disk User's Guide
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Setup: Seagate U4 EIDE Hard-Disk User's Guide
Dell-Installed Drives • Drives Purchased Separately
as Customer Kits • Preparing the
Drive for Operation
Dell-Installed Drives
Dell performs the installation and setup
on hard-disk drives that are shipped as part of a system. After
being installed, hard-disk drives that are part of a system configuration
are formatted and partitioned before the operating system is installed.
The drive is ready for use when you receive your system.
- For the Microsoft Windows 95 operating
system, EIDE drives smaller than 8.4 GB use a 16-bit file allocation
table (FAT 16) file system with a 2-GB primary partition and
extended partitions of 2 GB or less. Drives larger than 8.4 GB
use a single partition with the 32-bit file allocation table
(FAT32) file system.
- For the Windows 98 operating system, all
drives use a single partition with the FAT32 file system.
- For the Windows NT 4.0 operating system,
all drives have a 2-GB primary partition that uses the FAT 16
file system and a secondary partition formatted in the NT system
(NTFS).
Drives Purchased Separately
as Customer Kits
Mounting
You can mount the drive in any orientation.
Usually it is mounted with the circuit board down.
To mount the drive:
- Slide the drive carefully into the drive
bay.
- Secure the drive with four 6-32 UNC mounting
screws in either the side- mounting holes or the bottom-mounting
holes.
- Insert the screws no more than 0.22 inch
(5.58 mm) into the bottom-mounting holes and no more than 0.20
inch (5.0 mm) into the side-mounting holes.
Figure 1. Mounting screws
Maximum Cable Length
The maximum ATA cable length is 18 inches
(457 mm) long.
Installing the Drive
Install and configure the drive according
to the instructions provided in the Dell™ documentation for your
system.
Preparing the Drive
for Operation
Use the programs provided by the operating
system to partition and format the drive.
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