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    Product Manual Pipeline HD Pro Serial A T A 100527225 Re v . C Octoberber 2008 ST31000533CS[...]

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    Revision history Copyright © 2008 Seagate T echnology LLC. All right s reserved. Printed in U.S.A. Publication number: 100527225 , Rev . C, Octoberber 2008 Seagate, Seagate T echnology and the W ave logo ar e registere d trademarks of Seagate T echnology LLC in the United S t ates and/or other co untries. Pipeli ne HD, SeaT ools and SeaTDD are eit[...]

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    Pipeline HD Pro Serial ATA Product Manu al, Rev. C i Contents 1.0 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.1 About the Serial ATA interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2.0 Dr[...]

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    ii Pipeline HD Pro Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C[...]

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    Pipeline HD Pro Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C iii List of Figures Figure 1. Serial ATA connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Figure 2. Attaching SATA cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [...]

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    Pipeline HD Pro Serial ATA Product Manu al, Rev. C 1 1.0 Introduction This manual describes the functiona l, mechanical an d interface specifications for the following Seagate Pipeline HD ® Pro Serial A T A model drives: These drives provide the following key fea tures: • 7,200 RPM spindl e speed. • High instant aneous (burst) da ta-tran sfer [...]

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    2 Pipeline HD Pro S erial ATA Pro duct Manual, Rev. C 1.1 About the Serial A T A interface The Serial A T A interface provides several ad vanta ges over the traditional (p arallel) A T A interf ace. The p rimary advantages include : • Easy installation and configuration with true plug-and-play connectivity . It is not necessary to set any jump - [...]

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    Pipeline HD Pro Serial ATA Product Manu al, Rev. C 3 2.0 Drive specifications Unless otherwise noted, all specific ations are me asured unde r ambient conditions, at 25°C, and nominal power . For convenienc e, the ph rases the drive and this drive are used throughout this manual to in dicate the following drive models: S pecification summary ta bl[...]

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    4 Pipeline HD Pro S erial ATA Pro duct Manual, Rev. C T able 1: Drive specifications summary for 1000 Gbyte mo dels Drive specification ST31000533CS Formatted capacity (512 bytes/sector)* 1000 Gbytes Guaranteed sectors 1,953,525,168 Heads 6 Discs 3 Bytes per sector 512 Default sectors per track 63 Default read/write heads 16 Default cylinders 16,38[...]

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    Pipeline HD Pro Serial ATA Product Manu al, Rev. C 5 * On e Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard driv e capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating envir onment and formatting. * *During pe riods of drive idle, some offli ne activity may occur according to the S.M.A.R.T. specification, which may increase a coustic[...]

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    6 Pipeline HD Pro S erial ATA Pro duct Manual, Rev. C 2.1 Formatted cap acity *One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referri ng to hard drive capacity. Accessible c apa city may vary dependin g on operating envir onment and formatting. 2.1.1 LBA mode When addressing these d rives in LBA mode, all bloc ks ( sectors) are consecutively numbered from[...]

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    Pipeline HD Pro Serial ATA Product Manu al, Rev. C 7 2.4 Physical characteristics 2.5 Seek time Seek measurement s are t aken with nominal p ower at 25°C ambient temperature. All tim es are measured using drive diagnostics. The specifications in th e table belo w are defined as follows: • T rack-to-trac k seek time is an aver age of all possible[...]

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    8 Pipeline HD Pro S erial ATA Pro duct Manual, Rev. C 2.7 Power specifications The drive receives DC power (+ 5V or +12V) thro ugh a na tive SA T A power connector . See Figure 2 on p age 18. 2.7.1 Power co nsumption Power requirement s for the drives are listed in the table on page 9. T ypical power measurements are ba sed on an average of drives [...]

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    Pipeline HD Pro Serial ATA Product Manu al, Rev. C 9 2.7.4 Power-man agement mo des The drive provides progr ammable powe r management to provide gr eater energy ef fici ency . In most systems, you can control power manage ment through the system setup program. The drive features the following power-management mod es: • Active mode The drive is i[...]

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    10 Pipeline HD Pro S erial ATA Pro duct Manual, Rev. C 2.8 Environment al specifications 2.8.1 Ambient tempe rature Ambient temperatur e is defined as the temperatur e of the en vironment immediatel y surr ounding the drive. Actual drive c ase temper ature shou ld not exce ed 69°C (1 56°F) within th e operating ambient co nditions. Above 1,000 fe[...]

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    Pipeline HD Pro Serial ATA Product Manu al, Rev. C 11 2.8.5.2 Nono perating shock 1000 GB models The nonoperatin g shock level that the drive can exper ience without in curring physical damage or degra dation in performance when subsequently put into ope ration is 300 Gs based on a nonrepetitive half-sine shock pulse of 2 msec duration. 2.8.6 Vibra[...]

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    12 Pipeline HD Pro S erial ATA Pro duct Manual, Rev. C 2.9 Acoustics Drive acoustics are measur ed as overall A- weighted ac oustic sound power levels (no pu re tones). All mea- surements ar e consistent with ISO document 7779. Sound power measurem en ts a re ta ken under e ssentially free-field conditions over a reflecting plane. Fo r all te sts, [...]

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    Pipeline HD Pro Serial ATA Product Manu al, Rev. C 13 2.1 1 Reliability 2.1 1.1 Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) and Mean T ime Between Failures (MTBF) The product shall achieve an Annualized Failure Rate (A FR) of 0.62% when opera ted in an envir onment of ambient air temperatures of 25 ° C. Operation at temperatures ou tside the specifications in S[...]

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    14 Pipeline HD Pro S erial ATA Pro duct Manual, Rev. C Korean RRL If these dr ives have th e Korea M inistry of Informat ion and Communication (M IC ) logo, they comply with paragraph 1 of Article 1 1 of the El ectromagnetic Compatibility control Regulation and m eet the Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Framework requirement s of the Radio Resea[...]

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    Pipeline HD Pro Serial ATA Product Manu al, Rev. C 15 2.13 Environment al protection Seagate des igns its products to meet envi ronmental pr otection requirements worl dwide, including regulatio ns restricting certain chemical substances. 2.13.1 European Un ion Restriction of Hazardous Su bstances (RoHS) Directive Seagate des igns its products to m[...]

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    Pipeline HD Pro Serial ATA Product Manu al, Rev. C 17 3.0 Configuring and mounting the drive This section contains the specif ications an d instructions for configuring and mounting the drive. 3.1 Handling and st atic-discharge precautions After unp acking, and before installation, the drive may be exposed to pote ntial handling and electrostatic d[...]

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    18 Pipeline HD Pro S erial ATA Pro duct Manual, Rev. C 3.2 Configuring the drive Each drive on the Seri al A T A interface connects point-to-point with the Seri al A T A host adapter . There is no master/slave rela tionship becaus e each drive is consider ed a master in a point- to-point relationship. If two drives are attached on one Serial A T A [...]

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    Pipeline HD Pro Serial ATA Product Manu al, Rev. C 19 3.4 Drive mounting Y ou ca n mount the drive in a ny orientation u s ing four screws in the side-mounting holes or four screws in the bottom-mo unting hole s. See Figure 3 for drive mo unting dime nsions. Fo llow these imp ortant mounting p recau- tions when m ounting the drive: • Allow a mini[...]

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    20 Pipeline HD Pro S erial ATA Pro duct Manual, Rev. C[...]

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    Pipeline HD Pro Serial ATA Product Manu al, Rev. C 21 4.0 Serial A T A (SA T A) interface These drives use the industry-s tandard Ser ial A T A interfac e that supp orts FIS dat a transfers. It supports A T A programmed input/o utput (PIO) modes 0–4; mult iword DMA modes 0–2, and Ultra DM A modes 0–6. For det ailed information abou t the Seri[...]

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    22 Pipeline HD Pro S erial ATA Pro duct Manual, Rev. C 4.2 Serial A T A device plug conn ector pin definitions Table 5 summarizes the sig nals on the Se ria l ATA interface and power co nnectors. . Notes: 1. All pins are in a single row , with a 1.27 mm (0.050”) pitch. 2. The comment s on the mating sequence a pply to the case of backplane blindm[...]

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    Pipeline HD Pro Serial ATA Product Manu al, Rev. C 23 4.3 Supported A T A commands The following t able list s Serial A T A standard comman ds that the drive suppo rts. For a det ailed description of the A T A commands, refer to the Serial A T A Internatio nal Organization: Serial A T A Revision 2.6 (http:// www .sata-io.org). See “S.M.A .R.T . c[...]

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    24 Pipeline HD Pro S erial ATA Pro duct Manual, Rev. C Security Erase Unit F4 H Security Freeze F5 H Security Set Password F1 H Security Unlock F2 H Seek 70 H Set Features EF H Set Max Address F9 H Note: Individual Set Max Address commands are identifie d by the value placed in the Set Max Features regis - ter as defined to the right. Address: Pass[...]

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    Pipeline HD Pro Serial ATA Product Manu al, Rev. C 25 4.3.1 Identify Dev ice command The Identify Device command (command code EC H ) transfers information about the drive to the host following power up. The da ta is organized as a sing le 512-byte blo ck of data, whose conten ts are shown in T abl e 6 on page 23. All reserved bit s or words should[...]

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    26 Pipeline HD Pro S erial ATA Pro duct Manual, Rev. C 60–61 T otal number of user-addressable LBA sectors availabl e (see Section 2.1 for related information) *Note: The maximum value all owed in this field is: 0FFF FFFFh (268,435,455 sectors, 137 Gbytes). Drives with capacities over 137 Gbytes will have 0FFFFFFF h in this field and the actual n[...]

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    Pipeline HD Pro Serial ATA Product Manu al, Rev. C 27 Note. Advance d Power Management (APM) and Automatic Acou stic Manage ment (AAM) feat ures are not supp orted Note. See the bit descriptio ns below for words 63 , 84, and 88 of the Identify Drive data. 108–1 1 1 The mandatory value of the worl d wide name (WWN) for the drive. NOTE: This field [...]

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    28 Pipeline HD Pro S erial ATA Pro duct Manual, Rev. C Bit Wor d 8 8 0 Ultra DMA mode 0 is supported. 1 Ultra DMA mode 1 is supported. 2 Ultra DMA mode 2 is supported. 3 Ultra DMA mode 3 is supported. 4 Ultra DMA mode 4 is supported. 5 Ultra DMA mode 5 is supported. 6 Ultra DMA mode 6 is supported. 8 Ultra DMA mode 0 is currently active. 9 Ultra DM[...]

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    Pipeline HD Pro Serial ATA Product Manu al, Rev. C 29 4.3.2 Set Featu res comman d This command controls the implement ation of various feat ures that th e drive supports. When the drive receives this command, it sets BSY , checks the contents of the Featur es register , clears BSY and generate s an inter- rupt. If the value in the register does n [...]

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    30 Pipeline HD Pro S erial ATA Pro duct Manual, Rev. C 4.3.3 S.M.A.R.T . commands S.M.A.R.T . provides near-term failure prediction fo r disc drives. When S.M.A.R.T . is ena bled, the drive moni- tors predetermined drive attributes that are suscep t ible to degradation over time. If self- m onitoring determin es that a failure is likely , S.M.A.R.T[...]

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    Pipeline HD Pro Serial ATA Product Manu al, Rev. C 31 5.0 Seagate T echnology support services Online services Internet For information regardin g Seagate product s and services, visit www .sea gate.com . Worldwide support is available 24 hours daily by email fo r your questions. Presales Support: Presales@Seagate.com T echnical Support: DiscSuppor[...]

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    32 Pipeline HD Pro S erial ATA Pro duct Manual, Rev. C Customer Service Operations W arranty Service Seagate of fers worldwide customer support for Seagate products. Seagate d istributor s, OEMs and ot her direct customers should contact their Seagate Customer Serv ice Operat ions (CSO) re presentative for warr anty- related issues. Resellers or en[...]

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    Pipeline HD Pro Serial ATA Product Manu al, Rev. C 33 Index A ACA 14 acceleration 11 acoustics 12 Active 9 Active m ode 9 AFR 13 Agency certification 13 altitude 10 Ambient tempera ture 10 ambient temper ature 7 , 8 Annualized Failure Rate 13 Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) 13 areal density 1 , 6 ATA commands 23 Australia/New Zeala nd Standard AS/ NZ[...]

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    34 Pipeline HD Pro S erial ATA Pro duct Manual, Rev. C I/O duty cycle 13 Identify Devic e 23 Identify Devic e command 25 Idle 9 , 23 Idle Immediat e 23 Idle mode 8 , 9 IEC950 13 Information Technology Equipm ent (ITE) 13 Initialize Device Parameters 23 Input noise ripple 8 input voltage 8 interface 6 , 21 interferen ce 14 internal da ta-transfer ra[...]

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    Pipeline HD Pro Serial ATA Product Manu al, Rev. C 35 S.M.A.R.T. Enable/Disable Autosave 24 S.M.A.R.T. Execute Offline 24 S.M.A.R.T. implement ation 23 S.M.A.R.T. Read At tribute Th resholds 24 S.M.A.R.T. Read Data 24 S.M.A.R.T. Read Log Sector 24 S.M.A.R.T. Return Status 24 S.M.A.R.T. Save Attribute Values 24 S.M.A.R.T. Write Log se ctor 24 Safety[...]

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