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    TOSHIBA AMERICA INFORMA TION SYSTEMS STORAGE DEVICE DIVISION IRVINE, CALIFORNIA MK1031GAS (HDD2A02) 2.5-INCH HARD DISK DRIVE USER MANU AL Rev 02 11/2006[...]

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    CONTENTS Introductio n .............................................................................. 1 Setup ........................................................................................ 2 Using t he HDD ......................................................................... 4 T roub leshoo ting .......................................[...]

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    1 INTR ODUCTION - MK1031GAS (HDD2A02) General Features • 2.5" sized drive • 100 Gigabytes * • 9.5mm High • 12ms Average Seek Time • ATA-2,3,4,5,6 Interface • Supports high transfer rates of 100 MB/sec • 8MB Buffer • Rotational speed of 4,200rpm • MTTF 300,000 Hours *Toshiba defines a megabyte (MB) as 1 ,000,000 by tes and a g[...]

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    2 SETUP – MK1031GAS (HDD2A02) Caution : Your Hard Di sk Drive is a precision devi ce and even a small drop onto any surface can cause damage. Electron static discharge can also d amage the drive. You should ground yourself prior to handling the drive. Master/Slave Settings Your Toshiba Hard Di sk Drive can be configured as either a "Ma ster&[...]

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    3 Placing Hard Drive inside your Computer • Determine mounting confi guration (the drive can be mounted in either a horizon tal or vertical orientation) • Configure drive for sy stem application. • Configure the adapter board for the specif ic system application (if required). • Install adapter board into an unused P C/AT 16 bit slot (if re[...]

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    4 USING THE HARD DISK DRIVE – MK1031GAS (HDD2A02) Backing up Data Files To avoid data loss, regularly back u p the data files on the hard disk drive.[...]

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    5 TR OUBLESHOO TING – MK1031GAS (HDD2A02) Problem Solution My system is not able to reco gnize all available capacity on my Hard Disk Drive. What do I need to do to utilize the complete hard drive? There are some systems that are unable to recognize the new larger Hard Drives on the market. 3rd party software is available that breaks the "c [...]

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    6 SPECIFICA TIONS –MK1031GAS (HDD2A02) General Model MK1031GAS (HDD2A02) Interface ATA-2/3/4/5/6 Functionality Formatted Capacity 100.030GB* Rotational Speed 4200rpm Avg. Rotational Latency 7.14/ms Spin-up Time 4sec (typical) Buffer 8MB Seek Time (Averag e) 12 Internal Transfer Rate 170.0 ~ 373.0 Mbits/sec (max) Host Transfer Rate 100Mbytes/sec *[...]

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    7 Physical Height 0.37" (9.5mm) Width 2.75" (69.85mm) Depth 3.94" (100mm) Weight 3.46oz (98g) typ Regulatory The drive satisfies the following standards: Underwriters Laboratories (UL) 1950 Canadian Standard Associ ation (CSA) C22.2 No.220 No. 950 TUV Rheinland EN 60 950 EMC - EN50081-1 EN55022: 1988 Class B EN60555-2: 1987+ A1 EN605[...]

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    8 DRIVE CONNECT ORS –MK1031GAS (HDD2A02) Figure 1.MK1031GAS HDD Rear View - Connec tors Interface Connector Drive Side Connector Yamaichi GAP050K11617 or eq uivalent Recommended Ho st Side Connector Board Straight type: Berg 86455-044 86456 -044 or equivalent Cable Berg 89361-044 or equi valent Recommended Cable Charac teristics Standard diameter[...]

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    9 Interface Pin Assignment DRIVE INTERFACE SIGNALS PIN SIGNAL PIN SIGNAL 1 RESET 2 GROUND 3 DD 7 4 DD 8 5 DD 6 6 DD 9 7 DD 5 8 DD 10 9 DD 4 10 DD 11 11 DD 3 12 DD 12 13 DD 2 14 DD 13 15 DD 1 16 DD 14 17 DD 0 18 DD 15 19 GROUND 20 KEY 21 DMARQ 22 GROUND 23 DIOW/STOP 24 GROUND 25 DIOR/ -DMARDY HSTROBE 26 GROUND 27 IORDY/ -DMARDY/- DSTROBE 28 CSEL 29 [...]