Seagate ST3450856FC manual

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    Prod uct Ma nu al Chee t ah 15 K.6 FC 10046 5943 Rev . A Oc tober 2007 ST34 50856F C ST33 00656F C ST31 46356F C[...]

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    ©2007, S e agate T echnology LLC All righ ts reserv ed. Pub lication nu mber: 10046594 3, Rev . A Oc tober 2007 Sea gate, Sea gate T echnology and th e W ave logo are registered trade marks of Seagat e T echnology LLC in the United S t ates and/or other countries. C heet ah, SeaT ool s and SeaTD D are ei ther trade marks or r eg - istered tr adema[...]

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    Cheetah 1 5K.6 FC Pro duct Manua l, Rev. A i Cont ent s 1.0 S cope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2.0 Ap p lic able standa rds and refe r e nce document ation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.1 S ta[...]

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    ii Cheetah 15K .6 FC P roduct Man ual, Rev. A 6.4.2 Relat ive humidity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 6.4.3 E ffective altitude (sea level) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 6.4.4 S hock and vibr ation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .[...]

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    Cheetah 1 5K.6 FC Pro duct Manua l, Rev. A iii 9.6 S ignal ch aracteristic s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 9.6.1 T T L in put characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 9.6.2 LE D driver sign als . . . . . . . .[...]

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    iv Cheetah 15K .6 FC P roduct Man ual, Rev. A[...]

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    Cheetah 1 5K.6 FC Pro duct Manua l, Rev. A v List o f Figur es Figure 1. Typical S T330065 6FC curren t profil es . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Figure 2. Typical S T314635 6FC curren t profil es . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Figure 3. S[...]

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    Cheetah 1 5K.6 FC Pro duct Manua l, Rev. A 1 1.0 S cope This ma nual describes Sea gate T echnolog y ® LLC, Cheet ah ® 15K.6 FC (Fibr e Channel ) disc dri ves. Che etah 1 5K . 6 FC dri ves suppo rt the Fibre Ch annel Arbitrat ed Loop and S CSI Fi bre Cha nnel Protocol sp ecifi- catio ns to the extent de scribed in this manual. The Fib re Channel [...]

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    2 Cheetah 15K .6 FC P roduct Man ual, Rev. A[...]

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    Cheetah 1 5K.6 FC Pro duct Manua l, Rev. A 3 2.0 Appl icable st andards an d reference docum ent ation The dr ive has been d evelope d as a system p eriphe ral to the hig hest st and ards of design and constru c tion. The driv e depend s upon it s host equ ipment to provide ade quate powe r an d envi ronment in order to achieve o pti- mum p erforma[...]

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    4 Cheetah 15K .6 FC P roduct Man ual, Rev. A 2.1.2 Elect roma gn etic com plia nce Seag ate uses an i ndepend ent lab oratory to confirm comp liance with t he directi ves/stand ards for CE Ma rking and C-T ick Marking. The dr ive was tested in a r epre sent ative system for typica l applications. The select ed sys- tem re present s the most po pula[...]

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    Cheetah 1 5K.6 FC Pro duct Manua l, Rev. A 5 Seag ate also h as internal system s in place to en sure ongoing complian ce with the RoHS Direct ive and all laws and regu lations which restr ict chemical conte nt in el ectron ic products. T hese system s include sta ndar d oper at- ing proce dures that ensure that restr icted substa nces are not util[...]

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    6 Cheetah 15K .6 FC P roduct Man ual, Rev. A[...]

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    Cheetah 1 5K.6 FC Pro duct Manua l, Rev. A 7 3.0 General d escription Cheet ah 15K .6 FC drive s provide high perfor man ce, hi gh cap acity dat a stor age for a variety of system s includ- ing engi neering wor kstations, n etwork server s, mainframe s, and supercompute r s. Chee tah 15K.6 FC driv es support 4-Gb it Fibre Chan nel. Che etah 1 5K.6 [...]

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    8 Cheetah 15K .6 FC P roduct Man ual, Rev. A 3. 1 St a ndar d feat u re s Cheet ah 15K.6 FC dr ives have the f ollowing st andard featur es: • Perp endicula r recordi ng techn ology • 4-Gbi t Fibre Channe l interfa ce • Integra ted dual por t FC-AL controll er • Con current du al port tra nsfers • Supp ort for F C arbitr ated loop, p riva[...]

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    Cheetah 1 5K.6 FC Pro duct Manua l, Rev. A 9 3.3 P erform ance • Prog rammable multi-segme ntabl e cache buf fer • 800 Mb ytes/sec maximum inst antaneous d ata transfers per port • 15k R PM spindle ; average lat ency = 2.0 msec • Comman d queuing of up to 128 comma nds • Backgr ound proce ssing of queue • Supp orts st art and stop com m[...]

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    10 Cheetah 15K .6 FC P roduct Man ual, Rev. A • Single- unit shipping pa ck. The driv e is normal ly shipped in bulk p ackaging to provide m aximum prot ection against tra nsit damage. Unit s shipped ind ividuall y requ ire add itio nal pro tection as pr ovi ded by th e single unit shippi ng pack. Users planning sin gle unit distribu tion shoul d[...]

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    Cheetah 1 5K.6 FC Pro duct Manua l, Rev. A 11 4.0 Performance cha racteristics This secti on pr ovides det ailed informa tion concernin g perfor mance-re l a ted charact e risti cs and fe atures of Che etah 15 K .6 FC dri ves. 4.1 Int e rnal dr iv e charac terist i c s ST3450856FC ST3300656FC ST3146356FC Drive capacity* 450 300 146 Gbytes (formatte[...]

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    12 Cheetah 15K .6 FC P roduct Man ual, Rev. A 4.2.2 Format co m mand ex ecution time (minutes) 4.2.3 Ge neral perf orma nce cha racter istics 4.3 St a rt/st op tim e If the Mot or S tar t option is disabled, the drive become s ready with in 20 seconds af ter DC power is app l ie d. If a recover able er ror conditi o n is detect ed dur ing the sta r[...]

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    Cheetah 1 5K.6 FC Pro duct Manua l, Rev. A 13 the app li ca ble bytes i n pag e 08h. P refetch and cache oper ations are independent features f r om the stan dpoint that each is enabled a nd disabled indepe ndentl y using the Mode S elect comma nd; however , in actual opera- tion, the prefetch fea ture overla ps cache opera tion somewhat as descr i[...]

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    14 Cheetah 15K .6 FC P roduct Man ual, Rev. A If the numb er o f write dat a logical blo cks excee d the size o f the segm ent b eing wr itten into, wh en th e en d of the segment is re ached , the dat a is written i nto the b eginnin g of the sa me cache segme nt, ov erwriti ng the dat a that was wr itten there at the beginni ng of the op eration;[...]

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    Cheetah 1 5K.6 FC Pro duct Manua l, Rev. A 15 5.0 Reliabili ty specifi cations The follow ing reliab ility specificat ions assume correct hos t and driv e ope ration al int erface, inclu ding all i nter- face timi ngs, power supply volt ages, environ mental requi remen ts and d r ive m ounting constraint s. 5.1 E rror rates The er ror rat es stated[...]

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    16 Cheetah 15K .6 FC P roduct Man ual, Rev. A 5.1.3 Seek errors A seek err or is defined as a failure of the dri ve to pos ition the heads to the ad dressed track. Aft er detecting an initia l seek error , the drive autom atic ally perf orms an error recover y process. If the error recover y process fails , a seek positionin g error (Err or code = [...]

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    Cheetah 1 5K.6 FC Pro duct Manua l, Rev. A 17 The Pass-thro ugh st ate is disabled while the drive perfo rms se l f test of the FC interface. T he control l ine for an externa l por t bypass cir cuit rema ins in the Enable By pass state wh i le self test is runnin g. If th e bypass circ uit is present , loop oper ation m ay con tinue. If the byp as[...]

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    18 Cheetah 15K .6 FC P roduct Man ual, Rev. A Re po rti ng co ntr ol Reporti ng is controlled by the MRI E bits in the Info rmational E xceptions C ontrol mode page (1Ch). Subject to the repo rting method, th e firmw are will issue to th e ho st an 01-5D xx sense code. The error code is preserved throug h bus reset s and power cycles. Deter mining [...]

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    Cheetah 1 5K.6 FC Pro duct Manua l, Rev. A 19 be use d to set this trip point. The default value for this drive is 68°C, how ever , you can set it to any val ue in the range of 0 to 68°C. If you speci fy a tem perature greater than 68°C i n this fi eld, the temperature is roun ded down to 68 °C. A sense code is sent to th e host to i ndicate th[...]

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    20 Cheetah 15K .6 FC P roduct Man ual, Rev. A • Motor will not spin • Motor will not lock to speed • Servo will not lock on track • Drive cannot rea d configurat i o n tables f rom the disc In these conditions, the d rive respond s to a T est Unit Rea dy command with an 0 2/04/00 or 02/04/03 co de. 5.2.6.2. 2 Invok ing DST T o invoke DST , [...]

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    Cheetah 1 5K.6 FC Pro duct Manua l, Rev. A 21 The dr ive will report the failur e condition an d LBA (if ap plicable) in the Self-test Re sults Log p a r ameter . The Sense key , A SC, A SCQ, and FRU are used to r eport the failure co ndition. 5.2.6.2. 5 Abort There are severa l w a ys to abort a d iagnostic. Y ou can us e a SCSI Bus Reset o r a Bu[...]

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    22 Cheetah 15K .6 FC P roduct Man ual, Rev. A[...]

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    Cheetah 1 5K.6 FC Pro duct Manua l, Rev. A 23 6.0 Physical/el ect rical specific ations This secti on pro vides infor mation re lating to the physical and electrical chara cteristics of the d rive. 6.1 AC po wer requ i r em ent s None. 6.2 DC po wer requ i r em ent s The voltage and current requir ements for a single d rive a re shown below . V a l[...]

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    24 Cheetah 15K .6 FC P roduct Man ual, Rev. A [1] Measur ed with average r eading D C ammete r . Instan taneous +12V current peaks will exceed these val - ues. P ower suppl y at nomina l voltage. N ( number of drives tested) = 6, 35 Degr ees C ambient . [2] For +12 V , a –10% toleran ce is all owed during initial spindle st art but must return to[...]

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    Cheetah 1 5K.6 FC Pro duct Manua l, Rev. A 25 347 I/Os per second for ST330065 6F C and S T3146 356FC models. Cu rrent and p ower specified at nomi - nal vol tages. [7] Duri ng idle, the dri ve heads are relocat ed every 60 seconds to a ran dom location within the band fr om three- quar ters to maximum track. General DC p o wer r equireme nt notes.[...]

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    26 Cheetah 15K .6 FC P roduct Man ual, Rev. A Figure 1. T ypical ST3450856FC current profiles[...]

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    Cheetah 1 5K.6 FC Pro duct Manua l, Rev. A 27 Figure 2. T ypical ST3300656FC current profiles[...]

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    28 Cheetah 15K .6 FC P roduct Man ual, Rev. A Figure 3. T ypical ST3146356FC current profiles[...]

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    Cheetah 1 5K.6 FC Pro duct Manua l, Rev. A 29 6. 3 Po wer diss ipatio n ST3 450856FC T ypical power dissi pation under idle condi tions in 4 Gbit opera tion is 12.27 wat ts (41.9 BT Us per hour ). T o obtain oper ating power for typical rando m read opera tions, refer to the following I/O ra te curve (see Figure 4). Lo cate the typical I/O rate fo [...]

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    30 Cheetah 15K .6 FC P roduct Man ual, Rev. A ST3 300656FC T ypical power dissi pation under idle condi tions in 4 Gbit opera tion is 10.69 wat ts (36.5 BTU s per hour ). T o obtain oper ating power for typical rando m read opera tions, refer to the following I/O ra te curve (see Figure 4). Lo cate the typical I/O rate fo r a drive in yo ur syst em[...]

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    Cheetah 1 5K.6 FC Pro duct Manua l, Rev. A 31 ST3 146356FC T ypical power dissi pation under idle co nditions in 4 Gbit opera tion is 9.56 watt s (32.6 BT Us per hour ). T o obtain oper ating power for typical rando m read opera tions, refer to the following I/O ra te curve (see Figure 4). Lo cate the typical I/O rate fo r a drive in yo ur syst em [...]

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    32 Cheetah 15K .6 FC P roduct Man ual, Rev. A b. Non -operating –40° to 1 58°F (–40° to 70°C) package ambi ent with a maximum gradient of 36°F (20°C) per hour . This speci fication assumes that th e dr iv e is p ackaged in the shipping cont ain er designe d by Seagate for use w ith drive. Figure 7. Locations of the HDA temperature ch eck [...]

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    Cheetah 1 5K.6 FC Pro duct Manua l, Rev. A 33 b. Operati ng—abno rmal Equipm ent, as in stalle d for norma l operat ion, does not incur physical damage while subjected t o intermit - tent shock not exceeding 40 Gs at a maxi mum du rati on of 1 1 msec (half sinew ave). Shock occurr ing at abnorm al levels may pr omote de graded operati onal per fo[...]

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    34 Cheetah 15K .6 FC P roduct Man ual, Rev. A Figure 8. Recommended mounting Z Y X Z Y X[...]

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    Cheetah 1 5K.6 FC Pro duct Manua l, Rev. A 35 6.4.4.2 V ibrat ion a. Operati ng—nor mal The dr ive as inst alled for normal oper ation, shall co mply wit h the comp lete specified perf ormance while subjected t o continuous vibr ation not exce eding 10–500 Hz @ 0.5 G (ze ro to peak) V ibrat ion may be a pplied in the X , Y , or Z axi s. Operati[...]

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    36 Cheetah 15K .6 FC P roduct Man ual, Rev. A Users shoul d use cau tion exposing an y electronic component s to uncontrolled chemical poll utant s and corro- sive chemi cals as el ectroni c dr ive com ponen t reliab i lity can be af fected by the i nst allation environmen t. The sil- ver , copp er , nickel and gold films used in Seagate prod ucts [...]

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    Cheetah 1 5K.6 FC Pro duct Manua l, Rev. A 37 6. 5 M echa nica l s peci fic ation s The follow ing nominal dimensions ar e exclusive of the decorati ve front pa nel accessory . However , dime nsions of the front panel are shown in figure below . Refer to Figure 9 for deta iled mo unting configuration dimensions. See Secti on 8.4, “Drive moun ting[...]

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    38 Cheetah 15K .6 FC P roduct Man ual, Rev. A[...]

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    Cheetah 1 5K.6 FC Pro duct Manua l, Rev. A 39 7.0 Defect and error management Seag ate continues to use innovative techno logies to ma nage defect s and errors. T hese technol ogies are designed to increase da ta integr ity , perform drive se lf-m aintenance, an d validate pro per drive o peration. SCSI defect and error manag eme nt involves drive [...]

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    40 Cheetah 15K .6 FC P roduct Man ual, Rev. A The dr ive firmwa r e error recovery algor ithms con sists o f 13 levels for rea d recoveries an d five levels for write. Each level may consist of m ultiple steps, where a step is defined as a recovery functi on involvi ng a sin gle re- read or re-write a ttempt. The maximum le vel used by the drive in[...]

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    Cheetah 1 5K.6 FC Pro duct Manua l, Rev. A 41 [1] These va lues are subje ct to change. Setting these r etry counts to a value bel ow the default setti ng could result in a n increased unrecover ed error rate w hich may excee d the value given i n this pro duct manual. A setting of zero (0) will result i n the driv e not perf orming error recovery [...]

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    42 Cheetah 15K .6 FC P roduct Man ual, Rev. A service b y the host syste m. On r egular du ty drives, if the host system makes u se of the BMS Log Pag e, it can avoid pla cing data in suspect locations o n the medi a. Unreadable and recovered e rr o r sites will b e logged or reall ocated per ARRE/A WRE settings. With BMS, the host system can consu[...]

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    Cheetah 1 5K.6 FC Pro duct Manua l, Rev. A 43 7.7 Id le Re ad A fter Write Idle Read After Write (IRA W) utilizes idle tim e to verify the integrity of recently wr itte n data. During idle periods, no active system req uests, the drive reads recen tly written data from the media and compare s it to valid write comman d dat a resident in the drives [...]

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    44 Cheetah 15K .6 FC P roduct Man ual, Rev. A[...]

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    Cheetah 1 5K.6 FC Pro duct Manua l, Rev. A 45 8.0 Inst allatio n Cheet ah 15K.6 FC disc drive inst allation is a plug- and-play pro cess. There are no jumper s, switch es, or termi- nators on th e driv e. Simply plug the dr ive i n to the host’s 40- pin Fibre Channe l backp anel connector (FC - SCA) — no cables ar e requi red. S ee Section 9.5 [...]

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    46 Cheetah 15K .6 FC P roduct Man ual, Rev. A If forced ai r is necessary , possible air- flow patterns are shown i n Figure 10. The ai r-flow pa tterns are created by fans either forcing or draw ing air as shown in the illustrat ions. Conduction, conve ction, or o ther forced air- flow pattern s are acceptab l e as l ong as the temperatur e m easu[...]

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    Cheetah 1 5K.6 FC Pro duct Manua l, Rev. A 47 8.5 G round ing Signal ground (PCB A) and HDA groun d are connected t oget her in the drive an d cannot be sep arated by the user . The eq uipment in which the drive i s mounted is connecte d di rectly to the HDA and PCBA with no elect ri- cally isolating shock mounts . If it is desired for t he system [...]

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    48 Cheetah 15K .6 FC P roduct Man ual, Rev. A[...]

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    Cheetah 1 5K.6 FC Pro duct Manua l, Rev. A 49 9.0 Interface requ i rement s This secti on pa r tiall y describes the interface re quirement s as implemented on C h eetah 1 5K . 6 FC driv es. Addi- tion al informatio n is provided in the Fibre Ch annel Interf ace Manual ( part n umber 1002930 70). 9.1 FC- AL f eatur es This secti on lis ts the F ibr[...]

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    50 Cheetah 15K .6 FC P roduct Man ual, Rev. A 9.1. 2 Fib re Cha n nel t as k mana gem ent fu nct ions T able 7 list s the F ibre Chann el SCS I Fibre Channel Prot ocol (FC SCS I FCP ) ta sk management functions sup- ported . 9.1.3 Fibr e Chann el task m an ageme nt respon ses T able 8 list s the FC SC SI FCP resp onse codes return ed for task ma na[...]

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    Cheetah 1 5K.6 FC Pro duct Manua l, Rev. A 51 9.1.4 Fibre Ch annel port login T able 9 identifies the required conten t of the N_Port L ogin (PLOGI) p ayload from a n initiator . T able 9: N_Port login (PLOGI) payload Byte s 0-15 03 00 00 00 09 09 BB BB CF XX FS FS XX XX XX XX Co mmon 16-31 XX XX XX XX PN PN PN PN PN PN PN PN NN NN NN NN 32-35 NN N[...]

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    52 Cheetah 15K .6 FC P roduct Man ual, Rev. A 9.1.5 Fibr e Chann el port login accept T able 10 id entifies the N _Port Logi n access p ayload val ues. 9.1.6 Fibr e Chann el Process Lo gin T able 1 1 lists the process login payl oad dat a. XX Indicates fields that are not used. T able 10: N_Port Login Accept (ACC) p ayl oad Byte s 0-15 02 00 00 00 [...]

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    Cheetah 1 5K.6 FC Pro duct Manua l, Rev. A 53 9.1.7 Fibr e Chann el Process Lo gin Accept T able 12 list s Cheet ah 15K.6 FC process log in accept p ayload dat a. 9.1.8 Fibre Ch annel fabr ic login T able 13 list s the fabric login payl oad fr om the dr i ve. T able 12: Process Login Accept (A CC) p ayload Byte s 0-15 02 10 00 14 0 8 00 21 00 00 00[...]

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    54 Cheetah 15K .6 FC P roduct Man ual, Rev. A 9.1.9 Fibr e Chann el fabric ac cept lo gin T able 14 list s the requi red conten t of the Fa bric Login Accept ( A CC) payload from the fabric. T able 14: Fabric Logi n Accept (ACC) payload Byte s 0-15 02 00 00 00 09 09 BB BB CF XX FS FS R_ A_ T0 V_ Common 16-31 E_ D _ T0 V_ PN PN PN PN PN PN PN PN NN [...]

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    Cheetah 1 5K.6 FC Pro duct Manua l, Rev. A 55 9.1.10 Fibr e Channel Ar bitrated L oop opt ions T able 15 list s the FC- AL options supported b y Cheet ah 15K .6 FC drives. 9.2 Dual port su pport Che etah 1 5K .6 FC drives have two inde pendent F C-AL po rts. These p orts m ay be connected on independent loops or on the same l oop. P ort A and P o r[...]

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    56 Cheetah 15K .6 FC P roduct Man ual, Rev. A 9. 3 SC SI c omm and s su ppor ted T able 16 list s the SCSI co mmands sup ported by Cheet ah 15K.6 FC dr ives. T able 16: Supported commands Com m a nd c od e Supp ort e d [ 4 ] Com m a n d name 00h Y T est unit ready 01h Y Rezero unit 03h Y Request sense Y Extended sense Y Field pointer bytes Y Actual[...]

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    Cheetah 1 5K.6 FC Pro duct Manua l, Rev. A 57 Y V erify error recovery page (07h) Y Caching p arameters p age (08h) Y Control mode p age (0Ah) Y Fibre Channel Interface Control p age (19h) Y Power control page (1Ah) Y Information exceptions control page (1Ch) Y Background Scan m ode subpage (01h) 1Bh Y S tart unit/stop unit 1Ch Y Receive diagnostic[...]

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    58 Cheetah 15K .6 FC P roduct Man ual, Rev. A 32h N Searc h data low 33h N Set limits 34h N Pref etch 35h Y Synchronize cache 36h N Loc k-unlock-cache 37h Y Read defect data 39h N C ompare 3Ah N C opy and verify 3Bh Y Write buff er Y Write combined header and data mode (0) Y Write data mode (2) N D ownload microcode mode (4) Y Download microcode a [...]

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    Cheetah 1 5K.6 FC Pro duct Manua l, Rev. A 59 [1] Che etah 15 K.6 FC dr ives can format to 5 12, 520, 52 4 or 528 bytes per logical block. [2] Wa r n i n g . Power lo ss during fla sh programmin g can resul t in fi rmware co rruption. This usual ly makes the driv e inoperab le. [3] Refe rence Mod e Sense comma nd 1Ah for mo de pages supp orted. [4][...]

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    60 Cheetah 15K .6 FC P roduct Man ual, Rev. A 9.3.1 Inqu iry dat a T able 17 list s the Inq uiry command d ata that th e drive sh ould retur n to the initiator p er the forma t given in the Fibre Ch anne l Interface Manual . * C opyright year (changes with actual y ear). ** SCSI Revision sup port. R efer to the SPC rel ease docume ntati on for de f[...]

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    Cheetah 1 5K.6 FC Pro duct Manua l, Rev. A 61 On standa rd OEM drives, the saved values are taken from the default values list and store d into the saved values stor age location on the media p rior to shippi ng. 3. Current values Curren t values are volatile val ues being used by the drive to contro l i t s oper ation . A Mod e Sel ect comm and ca[...]

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    62 Cheetah 15K .6 FC P roduct Man ual, Rev. A T able 18: Mode Sense data saved, default and changeab le values for ST3450856FC drive s MODE DATA HEADER: 00 be 00 10 00 00 00 08 MODE PAGES: DEF 81 0a c0 0b ff 00 00 00 05 00 ff ff CHG 81 0a ff ff 00 00 00 00 ff 00 ff ff DEF 82 0e 80 80 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 3a 00 00 00 00 CHG 82 0e ff ff 00 00 00 00 0[...]

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    Cheetah 1 5K.6 FC Pro duct Manua l, Rev. A 63 T able 19: Mode Sense data default and changeable values fo r ST3300656FC drives MODE DATA HEADER: 00 be 00 10 00 00 00 08 MODE PAGES: DEF 81 0a c0 0b ff 00 00 00 05 00 ff ff CHG 81 0a ff ff 00 00 00 00 ff 00 ff ff DEF 82 0e 80 80 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 3a 00 00 00 00 CHG 82 0e ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff [...]

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    64 Cheetah 15K .6 FC P roduct Man ual, Rev. A T able 20: Mode Sense data default and changeable values fo r ST3146356FC drives MODE DATA HEADER: 00 be 00 10 00 00 00 08 MODE PAGES: DEF 81 0a c0 0b ff 00 00 00 05 00 ff ff CHG 81 0a ff ff 00 00 00 00 ff 00 ff ff DEF 82 0e 80 80 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 3a 00 00 00 00 CHG 82 0e ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff [...]

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    Cheetah 1 5K.6 FC Pro duct Manua l, Rev. A 65 9. 4 M iscel la neous oper ati ng fe atur es a nd c ondit ions T able 21 list s various featur es and conditio ns. A “Y” i n the suppor t column indica tes the featu re or con dition is support ed. An “N” in th e support co l umn ind icates the feat ure or con dition is no t supported. T able 21[...]

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    66 Cheetah 15K .6 FC P roduct Man ual, Rev. A 9.5 FC -AL ph ysic al inte rface Figure 1 1 shows the location of t he J1 Fibre Cha nnel single con nection attachm ent (FC-SCA ). Figur e 13 pr o- vides the d i mensi ons of th e FC-SCA connector . Det ails of the ph ysical, electrical, an d l ogical characteristi cs are provide d within this secti on.[...]

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    Cheetah 1 5K.6 FC Pro duct Manua l, Rev. A 67 9.5.2 Conn ector req u irem ents The F C-AL SC A device conn ector is il lustrated i n Figure 13. Figu re 13 . FC-A L S CA devic e c onn ect or dimen sio ns 9.5.3 Elect rical d escript ion Fibre C h annel dri ves use the FC-SCA conne ctor for: • DC power • FC-AL interface • Drive select (device id[...]

  • Page 76

    68 Cheetah 15K .6 FC P roduct Man ual, Rev. A T able 24: FC-SCA pin descriptions *Short p ins in mating backp anel connector . [1] This pin may be connecte d to external l ogic to d etect the presen ce of the drive. The drive conn ects this pin to the comm on ground . [2] Pins 9 , 10 , 17 , 18, and 39 are opt ion sele ct pins and are tied high by t[...]

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    Cheetah 1 5K.6 FC Pro duct Manua l, Rev. A 69 9.5.6 P ower Power is supplied through the F C-SCA with support for +5 volt s and +12 vo lts. All of the voltag e pins in the drive con nector are the sa me length. Four 12 volt pins provi de +12 volt power to the drive. The curren t return for the +12 vol t power suppl y is throug h the common ground p[...]

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    70 Cheetah 15K .6 FC P roduct Man ual, Rev. A 9.5.8 Active L ED Out The Ac tive LED Ou t signal is driven b y the drive as in dicated in T able 25. The Ac tive LED Out signal is design ed to pull do wn the cathode of an LED. T he anode is att ached to the proper +5 volt supply through an appr opriate current limi ting resistor . The L ED and the cu[...]

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    Cheetah 1 5K.6 FC Pro duct Manua l, Rev. A 71 9.5.1 1 SE L_6 thr ough S EL_0 ID l ines The S EL_6 throu gh SEL_0 ID lines de termine dr ive address, and, option ally , for an Enclosure Servic es Inter - face. W hen th e Parall el E SI line is high, the en cl osure backp ane l must pr ovide add ress info rma tion on the SEL line. Refer to t able 27 [...]

  • Page 80

    72 Cheetah 15K .6 FC P roduct Man ual, Rev. A T able 27: Arbitrated loop physical address (AL_P A) values AL_ P A (hex) SEL I D (hex) Setting (dec) AL_P A (hex) SEL I D (hex) Setting (dec) AL_P A (hex) SEL I D (hex) Setting (dec) EF 00 00 A3 2B 43 4D 56 86 E8 01 01 9F 2C 44 4C 57 87 E4 02 02 9E 2D 45 4B 58 88 E2 03 03 9D 2E 46 4A 59 89 E1 04 04 9B [...]

  • Page 81

    Cheetah 1 5K.6 FC Pro duct Manua l, Rev. A 73 9.5.12 Dev ice cont rol co des The dr ive input s a Device Con trol Code on the DEV _CTRL_C ODE lines at pow er up to de termine the l ink rate on the Fi bre Channe l port s. Both ports r un at the same rat e. If the backpa nel does not connect to these lines, the dr ive has 10K oh m pull up resistors t[...]

  • Page 82

    74 Cheetah 15K .6 FC P roduct Man ual, Rev. A 9.6.2 LED d river sign als Fault and Active LED signal s are located in the FC-SC A connector (J1) . See T able 30 for the output character - istics of the L ED drive signals. 9.6.3 FC Diffe rential ou tput The ser ial output sign al volta ge character istics are provi ded in T able 31. The output s are[...]

  • Page 83

    Cheetah 1 5K.6 FC Pro duct Manua l, Rev. A 75 Figure 16 provides the da ta valid eye diagram for typical and m inimum requ irement s to recover data at the speci fied inte rface err or rate. T he input s are AC coupl ed on the drive. Figure 16. Receive eye diagram T able 33: Eye diagram data values Link ra t e 1 GHz 2 GHz 4 GHz Bit ti m e 941 ps 47[...]

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    76 Cheetah 15K .6 FC P roduct Man ual, Rev. A[...]

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  • Page 86

    78 Cheetah 15K .6 FC P roduct Man ual, Rev. A Custo mer Se rvice Opera tion s W arranty Ser vice Seag ate of fer s worldw ide custom er supp ort for Seagate pro duct s. Seagate distri butors, OEM s and other direct customer s should cont act their Seagate Custom er Service Operation s (CSO) represent ative for wa rranty- related issu es. Resellers [...]

  • Page 87

    Cheetah 1 5K.6 FC Pro duct Manua l, Rev. A 79 Index Numerics 12 volt pin s 69 3rd pa rty reserve comm and 59 5 volt pins 69 A Abor t Sequence (A BTS) 49 abort t ask set function 50 AC coup ling 68 AC powe r requirem ents 23 ACA active status 65 ACA acti ve, faulted i nitiator st atus 65 Accept (AC C) 49 acoustics 35 active LE D Out sign al 70 Actua[...]

  • Page 88

    80 Cheetah 15K .6 FC P roduct Man ual, Rev. A D DAR 42 data he ads read/wr ite 11 data ra te inte rnal 11 data tr ansfer rate 12 data valid e ye 75 Date code page command 5 6 DC power 67 requir ements 23 defect an d error mana gement 39 defects 3 9 Deferre d Auto-Reallocation 42 deferr ed error han dling 65 descripti on 7 DEV_CTRL _CODE 73 Device B[...]

  • Page 89

    Cheetah 1 5K.6 FC Pro duct Manua l, Rev. A 81 flawe d sector re allocation 8 FLOGI received on Port A 53 received on Port B 53 Force unit acce ss command 57 form f actor 8 forma t 45 Form at command executio n time 12 Form at page (0 3h) command 56 Form at unit command 5 6 front p anel 37 FS 51 , 52 , 54 function complete , code 00 50 not supp orte[...]

  • Page 90

    82 Cheetah 15K .6 FC P roduct Man ual, Rev. A Reporti ng actual r etry count 65 Segm ented caching 65 SMP = 1 in Mode S e lect command 65 Synchr onized (l ocked) spind l e oper ation 65 Zero latency read 65 miscell aneous status support ACA a ctive 65 ACA active, fa ulted initiator 65 Busy 65 Check conditi on 65 Condi tion met/goo d 65 Good 65 Inte[...]

  • Page 91

    Cheetah 1 5K.6 FC Pro duct Manua l, Rev. A 83 Pref etch comman d 58 prefetch /multi - segme nted cache control 12 prevent i v e maintenanc e 15 priv ate loop FC-A L optio ns 55 Proc Assc 51 Process A ccept (ACC) 53 Process Logi n (P RLI) 49 , 52 Process Logi n Accept (A CC) payload 53 process lo gin payload dat a 52 Process Logo ut (PRLO) 49 progr [...]

  • Page 92

    84 Cheetah 15K .6 FC P roduct Man ual, Rev. A single-un it shipping pack kit 1 0 SMART 9 , 17 SMP = 1 in Mode S e lect command 65 SO 51 , 54 spindl e brake 8 Stacked connection r eq. 51 , 54 standar ds 3 Star t unit/stop uni t comm and 57 start/stop time 12 support services 77 Supp orted diagn ostics pages command 57 surface s tiffness allowa ble f[...]

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