Partitioning And Logically Formatting Your Eide Hard-Disk Drive; Installing Scsi Devices; Scsi Configuration Guidelines; Scsi Id Numbers - Dell Precision 410 User Manual

13. Enter the System Setup program, and update the
appropriate Drive category (0 or 1) under Drives:
Primary.
See "Drives: Primary and Secondary" in Chapter 3.
After you update the System Setup settings, reboot
the system.
14. Partition and logically format your drive, as
described in the next subsection, before proceed-
ing to the next step.
15. Test the hard-disk drive by running the Hard-
Disk Drive(s) Test Group in the Dell Diagnostics.
See your Diagnostics and Troubleshooting Guide for
information on running the diskette-based diagnos-
tics and troubleshooting any problems that may
occur.
16. Install your operating system on the hard-disk
drive.
Refer to the documentation that came with your
operating system.
Partitioning and Logically Formatting
Your EIDE Hard-Disk Drive
EIDE hard-disk drives must be physically formatted, par-
titioned, and logically formatted before they can be used
to store data. Every hard-disk drive from Dell is physi-
cally formatted before it is sent to you.
NOTE: When using the Windows NT operating system
with the FAT 16 file system, the primary partition for
each hard-disk drive can be no larger than 2 GB.
Extended partitions can be larger than 2 GB, but each
logical drive within an extended partition must be no
larger than 2 GB.
To partition and logically format your hard-disk drive,
use the program(s) offered by your operating system.
I
nstalling SCSI Devices
To use SCSI devices in your Dell computer, you must
have a SCSI host adapter card, which comes with its own
SCSI cable. This cable can be used to attach a variety of
SCSI devices (hard-disk drives, tape drives, and so on).
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The SCSI host adapter configures the devices attached to
it as one subsystem—not as independent devices.
Although SCSI devices are installed essentially the same
way as other devices, their configuration requirements
are different.

SCSI Configuration Guidelines

For details on configuring your SCSI subsystem, refer to
the documentation that came with your SCSI devices
and/or your host adapter card. The following subsections
offer some general guidelines.

SCSI ID Numbers

Each device attached to a SCSI host adapter card, as well
as the card itself, must have a unique SCSI identification
(ID) number from 0 to 7. When SCSI devices are shipped
from Dell, the default SCSI ID numbers are assigned as
follows:
•
A SCSI host adapter card is configured as SCSI ID 7.
•
A SCSI tape drive or digital audio tape (DAT) drive
is configured as SCSI ID 6.
•
A SCSI CD-ROM drive is configured as SCSI ID 5.
•
SCSI hard-disk drives are usually configured as
SCSI ID 0. (The drive used to boot your system
should always be configured as SCSI ID 0.)
NOTE: There is no requirement that SCSI ID numbers be
assigned sequentially or that devices be attached to the
cable in order by ID number.

SCSI Cable and SCSI Termination

The type of cabling you receive with your SCSI device
depends on the type of device you are installing.
•
If you are installing an internal narrow SCSI device
(such as a CD-ROM drive or tape drive), you have a
50-pin internal SCSI cable as shown in Figure 9-14.
One end of this cable attaches to the SCSI host
adapter. The three connectors on the other end of the
cable are used for attaching up to three narrow SCSI
devices installed in the externally accessible drive
bays.