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Prod uct Ma nu al Chee t ah NS FC 10045 7516 Rev . B Aug ust 2007 ST34 00755F C ST33 00955F C.
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Cheetah N S FC Pr oduct Manu al, Rev. B i.
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Cheetah N S FC Pr oduct Manu al, Rev. B i Cont ent s 1.0 S cope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2.0 S tandards, co m plian ce and ref erence docum ents .
ii Cheetah N S FC Produ ct Manual, R ev. B 6.4.2 Relat ive humidity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 6.4.3 E ffective altitude (sea level) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Cheetah N S FC Pr oduct Manu al, Rev. B iii 9.6 S ignal ch aracteristic s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 9.6.1 T TL input cha racteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Cheetah N S FC Pr oduct Manu al, Rev. B v List o f Figures Figure 1. Typical ST330095 5FC dri ve, 4 Gbit, + 5V and +12V curr ent profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Figure 2. ST340075 5FC DC curren t and pow er vs. input /output operation s per second at 4 Gb it .
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Cheetah N S FC Pr oduct Manu al, Rev. B 1 1.0 S cope This ma nual describes Sea gate T e chnology ® LLC, C heetah NS FC (Fibre Channe l) disc driv es. Cheet ah NS FC drives support the Fi bre Channe l Arb itrated Loop and SCSI Fibre Channel Protocol spe cifica- tions to th e extent described i n this man ual.
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Cheetah N S FC Pr oduct Manu al, Rev. B 3 2.0 S t andards, compliance and reference docu m ent s 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.
4 Cheetah N S FC Produ ct Manual, R ev. B 2.2 C omp liance 2.2.1 Elect roma gn etic com plia nce Seag ate uses an i ndepend ent lab oratory to confirm comp li a nce 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.
Cheetah N S FC Pr oduct Manu al, Rev. B 5 2.3 Ref erence doc ument s Che etah NS FC Insta llation Guide Seag ate par t number: 100457517 SCSI Commands R eferen ce Manual Seag ate par t number: 1002 93068 Fibre C hanne l Inter face Manual Seag ate par t number: 100293070 ANSI Fibre C hannel D ocument s X3.
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Cheetah N S FC Pr oduct Manu al, Rev. B 7 3.0 General d escri p tion Cheet ah NS FC drives provide high p er formance, high cap acity data storage for a variety o f systems including engineer ing workstat ions, network servers, mainfr ames , and supe rcomputers.
8 Cheetah N S FC Produ ct Manual, R ev. B 3. 1 St a nd ar d fea tu re s Cheet ah NS FC dri ves have the following stan dard features: • Perp endicula r recordi ng techn ology • 4-Gbi t Fibre Chann.
Cheetah N S FC Pr oduct Manu al, Rev. B 9 3.3 P erform ance • Prog rammable multi-segme ntabl e cache buf fer • 800 Mb ytes/sec maximum instantan eous data tra nsfers per port • 10k RPM spindle .
10 Cheetah N S FC Produ ct Manual, R ev. B 3.7 Fa ctor y-ins talled opti ons Y ou may order the follo wing items which are incor porated at the manufacturing facility durin g production or packa ged before shipping .
Cheetah N S FC Pr oduct Manu al, Rev. B 11 4.0 Performance cha r acteristics This secti on pr ovides det ailed informa tion concerning perfor mance-re l ated ch aracteristics a nd feature s of Cheetah NS FC drives. 4.1 Int e rnal dr iv e charac ter is tics ST3400755FC ST3300955FC Drive capacity* 400.
12 Cheetah N S FC Produ ct Manual, R ev. B 4.2.2 For mat co mmand execut ion tim e (m inut es) Executio n time measured from receipt of t he last byte of the C omman d Descrip tor Block ( CDB) to th e request for a S tatus B yte T ransfer to th e Initiat or (excluding connect/disconne ct).
Cheetah N S FC Pr oduct Manu al, Rev. B 13 4.4 Pr ef etch /mult i-s eg men te d cach e cont ro l The d rive provides a pref etch (rea d look-ahead) and mult i- segmented cache contr ol algorithm s that i n many cases ca n enhance syst em per formance.
14 Cheetah N S FC Produ ct Manual, R ev. B If rea d caching is en abled (RCD=0), then dat a written to th e medium is retained in the cach e to be m ade avail- able for future read cach e hit s. The sam e buffe r space and se gmentation i s used as set up for read fun ctions.
Cheetah N S FC Pr oduct Manu al, Rev. B 15 5.0 Reliabi lity specifi cations The follow ing reliab ility specificat ions assume correct hos t and driv e ope ration al int erface, inclu ding all inter - face timi ngs, power supply volt ages, environ m ental requir ements and d r ive m ounting constr aints.
16 Cheetah N S FC Produ ct Manual, R ev. B 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. Af ter dete cting an initia l seek error , the drive autom aticall y perf orms an error recovery process.
Cheetah N S FC Pr oduct Manu al, Rev. B 17 The Pass-thro ugh st ate is disabled while the drive perfo rms se lf t est of the FC interfa ce. The contr ol line for an externa l por t byp ass circuit remains in the Enable Byp ass sta te wh ile self test is r unning.
18 Cheetah N S FC Produ ct Manual, R ev. B Re po rt ing co nt rol Reporti ng is controlled by the MRI E bits in the Info rmational Excep tions Control mode page (1Ch). Subject to the repo rting method, the f irmware w ill issue to the ho st an 01- 5Dxx sense code .
Cheetah N S FC Pr oduct Manu al, Rev. B 19 be use d to set this trip point. The d efault val ue for this dri ve is 68°C, however , you can set it to any value in the range of 0 to 68°C. If you speci fy a tem perature greater than 6 8°C in this fiel d, the temperature is rounded down to 68 °C.
20 Cheetah N S FC Produ ct Manual, R ev. B A Drive N ot R eady condition is reported by the drive under the fol lowing con ditions: • Motor will not spin • Motor will not lock to speed • Servo w.
Cheetah N S FC Pr oduct Manu al, Rev. B 21 The dr ive will report the failur e condition an d LBA (if ap plicable) in the S elf-test Re sults Log p a r ameter . The Sense key , ASC, ASCQ, and FRU are used to repor t the failure co ndition. 5.2.6.2. 5 Abort There are severa l w ays to ab ort a diagnost ic.
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Cheetah N S FC Pr oduct Manu al, Rev. B 23 6.0 Physi cal/electrical spe ci fications 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 rem ent s None. 6.2 DC po wer requ i rem ent s The volta ge and current requir ements for a sin gle drive a re shown below .
24 Cheetah N S FC Produ ct Manual, R ev. B [1] Measured with average readin g DC ammeter . Instan taneou s +12V cur rent peaks wi ll exceed these val - ues. P ower suppl y at nomina l voltage. N ( number of drive s tested) = 6, 3 5 Degrees C a mbient.
Cheetah N S FC Pr oduct Manu al, Rev. B 25 6.2.1 Cond ucted nois e immunity Noise is specifi ed as a per iodic and random distr ibution of fre quencies cover i ng a ba nd from DC to 1 0 MHz. Maximum allowed noise valu es given below ar e peak-to- peak measurem ents and apply at the driv e power connector .
26 Cheetah N S FC Produ ct Manual, R ev. B 6. 2.3 Current profil es The +12V and + 5V current p rofiles for th e ST340 0755FC and ST 3300955F C model s are shown below . Not e: All times and currents are typical. See T ables 2 and 3 for maximum c urrent requirements.
Cheetah N S FC Pr oduct Manu al, Rev. B 27 Figure 2. T yp ical ST3300955FC drive, 4 Gbit, +5V and +12V cu rrent profiles.
28 Cheetah N S FC Produ ct Manual, R ev. B 6. 3 Po wer di ssipat ion ST3 400755FC T ypical power dissi pation under idle condi tions in 4 Gbi t opera tion is 8.1 watt s (27.64 BTU s per hour ). T o obta in operating powe r for typical rando m read opera tions, refer to the following I/O ra te curve (see Figure 3).
Cheetah N S FC Pr oduct Manu al, Rev. B 29 ST3 300955FC T ypical power dissi pation under idle condi tions in 4 Gbi t opera tion is 7.62 watt s (26.0 BTU s per hour ). T o obta in operating powe r for typical rando m read opera tions, refer to the following I/O ra te curve (see Figure 3).
30 Cheetah N S FC Produ ct Manual, R ev. B 6.4 Enviro nmental li mit s T emperatur e and humidity values exp erienced by the dr iv e must be such t hat condensation does not occur on any dr i ve p art. Altitude a nd atmospheri c pressu re speci fications are refe renced to a st andard day a t 58.
Cheetah N S FC Pr oduct Manu al, Rev. B 31 6.4.3 Eff ective alt itude (sea level) a. Operati ng –200 to +1 0,000 feet ( –61 to +3,04 8 meters) b. Non -operating –200 to +4 0,000 feet ( –61 to +12,2 10 meters) 6.4.4 Sho ck and vibrat ion Shock and vibrati on limit s specified in this document ar e measured d irectly on the dr ive chassis.
32 Cheetah N S FC Produ ct Manual, R ev. B Drives packa ged in single or multip acks with a gross weight of 20 pounds (8.95 kg) or less by Seagate for genera l freight shipment sha ll withstand a drop test fr om 48 inch es (1,070 mm ) agai nst a concrete flo or or equival ent.
Cheetah N S FC Pr oduct Manu al, Rev. B 33 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 specifie d performance w hile subjected t o continuous vibr ation not exce eding 5 - 500 Hz 0.
34 Cheetah N S FC Produ ct Manual, R ev. B exposed to a n am bient relative hum idity gr eate r th an 9 5%. Mat erials used in cabin et fa bricati on , such as v ulca- nized rubb er , that can outgas corrosive comp ounds should be minim i ze d or elimina ted.
Cheetah N S FC Pr oduct Manu al, Rev. B 35 6. 5 M echa ni cal s pe cifi cat ion s Refer to Figure 7 f or deta iled physica l dimen si o ns. See Section 8.4, “Drive mount i n g.” Fig ure 7. M ounti ng c onfi gura tio n di mensi ons Heigh t (max): 1.
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Cheetah N S FC Pr oduct Manu al, Rev. B 37 7.0 Defect and error management Seag ate continues to use innovative techno logies to ma nage defect s and errors. T hese technologi es are designed to increase da ta integr ity , perform drive se lf-maintena nce, and validat e proper driv e opera tion.
38 Cheetah N S FC Produ ct Manual, R ev. B The drive firmware error recove ry algori thms consist s of 1 1 levels for re ad recoveries and five levels for wri te. 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.
Cheetah N S FC Pr oduct Manu al, Rev. B 39 7. 3 FC -A L sy stem err or s Inform ation on the rep orting of operat i onal error s or faul ts acr oss the interface i s given i n the Fib re Channel Interfa ce Manual . Th e FCP Response returns infor mation to the h ost about numerou s kinds of errors o r faults.
40 Cheetah N S FC Produ ct Manual, R ev. B 7.6 De ferr ed A uto-R eall ocat ion Deferred Aut o-Realloc ation (DAR) simplifies reallocation al g orithms at the system leve l by allowing the drive to reall ocate un readabl e location s on a subse quent write comman d.
Cheetah N S FC Pr oduct Manu al, Rev. B 41 8.0 Inst al lat ion Cheet ah NS FC di sc drive i nstal lation is a plu g-and-pla y process. Ther e are no jump ers, swit ches, or t ermina- tors o n the drive. S imp ly plug the drive into the host’s 40-pin Fi bre Chann el backpanel connecto r (FC- SCA) — no cables a re required.
42 Cheetah N S FC Produ ct Manual, R ev. B If forced air is necessary , possib le air- flow p atterns are shown in Fi gure 8. Th e air-fl ow patter ns are created by fans eithe r forcing or drawing air a s shown in the illu str ations.
Cheetah N S FC Pr oduct Manu al, Rev. B 43 8.5 G roundi ng Signal ground (PCB A) and HDA groun d are conn ected toget her i n the dr ive an d cannot be separated b y the user . The equipme nt in which the drive i s mounted is connecte d directl y to the HDA and PCBA with no electri- cally isolating shock mounts .
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Cheetah N S FC Pr oduct Manu al, Rev. B 45 9.0 Interface requ i rement s This secti on partiall y describes the inter face requirement s as implemen ted on Cheetah NS FC driv es. Addi- tion al informatio n is provided in the Fibre Ch annel Interf ace Manual (p art number 10 0293070).
46 Cheetah N S FC Produ ct Manual, R ev. B 9.1. 2 Fib re Cha nne l task m anage men t fu nct ion s T able 6 list s the Fibre Channel SC SI Fi bre Chann el Protocol ( F C SCSI FCP ) ta sk managem ent functions su p- ported .
Cheetah N S FC Pr oduct Manu al, Rev. B 47 9.1.4 Fibre Ch annel port login T able 8 ide ntifies the req uired conten t of the N_Port L ogin (PLOGI) p ayload from a n initiator .
48 Cheetah N S FC Produ ct Manual, R ev. B 9.1.5 Fibr e Chann el por t login acce pt T able 9 ide ntifies the N_Port L ogin access p a yload values. 9.1.6 Fibr e Chann el Process Lo gin T able 10 lis ts th e process login payload d ata. XX Indicates fields that are not used.
Cheetah N S FC Pr oduct Manu al, Rev. B 49 9.1.7 Fibr e Chann el Process Lo gin Accep t T able 1 1 list s Cheetah NS FC pr ocess login accept p ayload dat a. 9.1.8 Fibre Ch annel fabr ic login T able 12 lis ts th e fabric login p ayload fr om the drive.
50 Cheetah N S FC Produ ct Manual, R ev. B 9.1.9 Fibr e Chann el fabric ac cept lo gin T able 13 li sts th e required conten t of the Fabric Login A ccept (ACC) payload from the fabric .
Cheetah N S FC Pr oduct Manu al, Rev. B 51 9.1.10 Fibr e Channel Ar bitrated Loo p opt ions T able 14 lis ts th e FC-AL options supported by Cheet ah NS FC drive s. 9.2 Dual port su ppor t Che etah NS FC drives h ave two i ndependen t FC-AL port s. These por ts may b e connected on i ndepend ent loops or on the same l oop.
52 Cheetah N S FC Produ ct Manual, R ev. B 9. 3 SC SI com mand s supp ort ed T able 15 lis ts th e SC SI comma nds supporte d by Cheet ah NS FC dri ves.
Cheetah N S FC Pr oduct Manu al, Rev. B 53 Y V erify error recovery page (07h) Y Caching parameters page (08h) Y Control mode p age (0Ah) Y Fibre Channel Interface C ontrol p age (19h) Y Power control.
54 Cheetah N S FC Produ ct Manual, R ev. B 32h N Search data low 33h N Set limits 34h N Prefetch 35h Y Synchronize cache 36h N Lock-unlock-cache 37h Y Read defect data 39h N Compare 3Ah N Copy and v e.
Cheetah N S FC Pr oduct Manu al, Rev. B 55 [1] Che etah NS FC driv es can form at to 512, 520, 5 24 or 528 bytes per logi cal bl ock. [2] Wa r n i n g . Power lo ss during fla sh programmi ng can result in fi rmware co rrupti on. This usually makes the driv e inoperab le.
56 Cheetah N S FC Produ ct Manual, R ev. B 9.3.1 Inqu iry dat a T able 16 list s the Inquiry co mmand dat a that the dr ive sh ould retur n to the initiator p er the forma t give n in the Fibre Ch anne l Interface Manual . * Copyright year (c hanges with actual year).
Cheetah N S FC Pr oduct Manu al, Rev. B 57 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 r ior to shippi ng. 3. Curren t values Curren t values are volatile val ues being used by the dri ve to contro l i t s oper ation .
58 Cheetah N S FC Produ ct Manual, R ev. B T able 17: Mode Sense data saved, default and changeab le values for ST3400755FC drive s MODE SENSE (10 BYTE) HEADER DATA 00 ae 00 10 00 00 00 08 2e 90 ed d .
Cheetah N S FC Pr oduct Manu al, Rev. B 59 T able 18: Mode Sense data default and changeable values fo r ST3300955FC drives MODE DATA HEADER: 03 8a 00 10 00 00 00 08 MODE PAGES: DEF 80 06 00 80 0f 00 .
60 Cheetah N S FC Produ ct Manual, R ev. B 9. 4 M iscel la neou s op er ating feat ur es a nd c ondit io ns T able 19 lists va rious f eatures an d conditio ns. A “Y” in the support colum n indica tes the featu re or con dition is support ed. An “N” in th e support co lumn ind icates the feat ure or condition i s not supp orted.
Cheetah N S FC Pr oduct Manu al, Rev. B 61 9.5 FC -AL phys ical inte rface Figure 9 shows the location of the J1 Fibre C hannel sing l e con nection att achment (FC-S CA). Fi gure 1 1 pr o- vides the d i mension s of the FC-SCA connector . Det ails of the ph ysical, electrical, an d l ogical characteristi cs are provide d within this secti on.
62 Cheetah N S FC Produ ct Manual, R ev. B 9.5.2 Conn ector req uirement s The F C-AL SC A device conn ector is il lustrated i n Figure 1 1. Figu re 1 1 .
Cheetah N S FC Pr oduct Manu al, Rev. B 63 T able 21: 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 p resence of the drive. The dr i v e conn ects thi s pin to the comm on ground .
64 Cheetah N S FC Produ ct Manual, R ev. B 9.5.6 P ower Power is supplied through the FC-SCA with support for +5 volt s and + 12 volts. A ll of the voltag e pins in the drive con nector are the sa me length. Four 12 volt pins provide +12 vol t power to the driv e.
Cheetah N S FC Pr oduct Manu al, Rev. B 65 9.5.8 Active L ED Out The Ac tive LED Ou t signal is d r iven by the d rive as indi cated in T able 22. The Ac tive LED Out signal is design ed to pull do wn the cathode of an LED. The ano de is attached to the proper +5 volt supply through an appr opriate curre nt lim iting resistor .
66 Cheetah N S FC Produ ct Manual, R ev. B 9.5.1 1 SEL_6 through SEL _0 ID l ines The S EL_6 throu gh SEL_0 ID lines de termine dr ive ad dress, and, optionally , for an Enclosur e Service s 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.
Cheetah N S FC Pr oduct Manu al, Rev. B 67 T able 24: Arbitrated loop physical address (A L_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) .
68 Cheetah N S FC Produ ct Manual, R ev. B 9.5.12 Dev ice cont rol co des The dr ive input s a Device Con trol Cod e on the DEV _CTRL_COD E lines at power up to determine the li nk rate on the Fi bre Channe l port s.
Cheetah N S FC Pr oduct Manu al, Rev. B 69 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 27 for the output character - istics of the L ED drive signals. 9.6. 3 FC Di ff ere nt ial out put The ser ial output si gnal vol tage char acteristi cs are provided in T able 28.
70 Cheetah N S FC Produ ct Manual, R ev. B Figure 14 provides the da ta valid eye diagram for typical and min imum requ irements to r ecover data at the speci fied inte rface err or rate.
Cheetah N S FC Pr oduct Manu al, Rev. B 71 10.0 Seagate T echnology suppo r t service s Inter net For info rmation regardi ng Seagate pr oducts and servi ces, visit www .se a gate.com . W orldw ide support i s availa ble 24 hour s daily by email fo r your questions.
72 Cheetah N S FC Produ ct Manual, R ev. B Custo mer S ervice Op eratio ns W arranty Ser vice Seag ate of fer s worldw ide custom er supp ort for Seagate pro duct s. Seagate distributor s, OEM s and other direct customer s should cont act their Seagate Custom er Service Ope rations ( CSO) represent ative for warra nty- related issu es.
Cheetah N S FC Pr oduct Manu al, Rev. B 73 Index Numerics 12 volt pin s 64 3rd pa rty reserve comm and 55 5 volt pins 64 A Abor t Sequence (A BTS) 4 5 abort t ask set function 46 AC coup ling 63 AC po.
74 Cheetah N S FC Produ ct Manual, R ev. B D DAR 40 data block si ze modifi ng the 9 data he ads read/wr ite 11 data ra te inte rnal 11 data tr ansfer rate 12 data valid e ye 70 Date code page command.
Cheetah N S FC Pr oduct Manu al, Rev. B 75 Firmw are do wnload o ption co mmand 54 Firmw are nu mbers pag e command 52 flawe d sector re allocation 8 FLOGI received on Port A 49 received on Port B 49 .
76 Cheetah N S FC Produ ct Manual, R ev. B Queue ta gging 60 Reporti ng actual r etry count 60 Segm ented caching 60 SMP = 1 in Mode S ele ct command 60 Synchr onized (l ocked) spind le operati on 60 .
Cheetah N S FC Pr oduct Manu al, Rev. B 77 prefetch /multi - segme nted cache control 13 prevent i ve mai ntenanc e 15 priv ate loop FC-A L optio ns 51 Proc Assc 47 Process A ccept (ACC) 49 Process Lo.
78 Cheetah N S FC Produ ct Manual, R ev. B SMP = 1 in Mode S ele ct command 60 SO 47 , 50 spindl e brake 8 Stacked connection r eq. 47 , 50 standar ds 3 Star t unit/stop uni t comm and 53 start/stop t.
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