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Apacer Technology AP-SRFD255AXXXXR-G manual

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    Serial A T A Flash Drive A P-SRFD255 A XXXXR-G 1 © 2008 Apacer Technol ogy Inc. Rev 0.2 (Preliminary) RoHS Compliant Serial AT A R AID Flash D rive Specifica tions for S RFD April 25, 2008 [Preliminar y] Apacer Tech nology Inc. 9/F, No. 100, Hsin Tai Wu Rd., Hsichih, Taipei Hsien 221, Taiwan Tel: +886-2-2696-1666 Fax: +886 -2-2696-1668 www.apacer.[...]

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    Serial A T A Flash Drive A P-SRFD255 A XXXXR-G 2 © 2008 Apacer Technol ogy Inc. Rev 0.2 (Preliminary) Features:  Interf ace – Serial ATA 2. 5 (G en. 2) – SATA II, 3.0 Gbps – ATA comman d set compa tible  Performance – Burst read/write: 300 MB/sec  Capaciti es – 1 GB+ f or each s lot with Ultra DMA mode support  Expansi on –[...]

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    Serial A T A Flash Drive A P-SRFD255 A XXXXR-G 3 © 2008 Apacer Technol ogy Inc. Rev 0.2 (Preliminary) Table of Co ntents 1. General Description ......... ....... ................ ........ ............ ............ ........ ............... ........ .. 4 1.1 Fun ctional Block Diagram ..... ............ ......... ......... ......... ........... .....[...]

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    Serial A T A Flash Drive A P-SRFD255 A XXXXR-G 4 © 2008 Apacer Technol ogy Inc. Rev 0.2 (Preliminary) 1 . . . . Genera l Description The Apacer 2.5” SRFD is t he first SATA RAI D Flash Driv e intr oduced t o the market. SRFD increases data reliabilit y an d secur ity by utilizing an SATA interf ace and saving data into two Compact Flash cards. I[...]

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    Serial A T A Flash Drive A P-SRFD255 A XXXXR-G 5 © 2008 Apacer Technol ogy Inc. Rev 0.2 (Preliminary) 1.2 A ppearance This sec tion describes the appearance of the SRFD. It contains the LED indica tion, mode conf igurations, expansion s lots, and interfaces. S A TA conne ctor Power connect or R/W LED (D2) Link LED (D 1) RAID Mode Configurat ion Ta[...]

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    Serial A T A Flash Drive A P-SRFD255 A XXXXR-G 6 © 2008 Apacer Technol ogy Inc. Rev 0.2 (Preliminary) 1.3 Mode Configuration Apacer SRFD s upports 4 static pins that can be used t o program a normal opera ting st ate. The configur ation of each node uses a combination of the Configurat ion pins and t he Pushbutt on (Reset) pin. Table 1-1 : Mode Co[...]

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    Serial A T A Flash Drive A P-SRFD255 A XXXXR-G 7 © 2008 Apacer Technol ogy Inc. Rev 0.2 (Preliminary) 1.4 LED Mode The f ollowing table shows L ED Mode s tatus and des criptions. Table 1-2 : LED Stat us H/D Signal C olor Indication Description D1 Red SATA Link SATA Link ready Host D2 Green Read/W rite Host/dev ice Access (a ctive) D3 Yellow LED_D0[...]

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    Serial A T A Flash Drive A P-SRFD255 A XXXXR-G 8 © 2008 Apacer Technol ogy Inc. Rev 0.2 (Preliminary) 2. Functions 2.1 Overv iew  Compatible with SATA Ge n1 and Gen2 hos t contr ollers  OS independent , Dr iverless, Auto Conf iguration  FAST (RAID 0), SAFE (RAI D 1) support  Embedded f ast RAID P rocessor  Virtualization eng ine to [...]

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    Serial A T A Flash Drive A P-SRFD255 A XXXXR-G 9 © 2008 Apacer Technol ogy Inc. Rev 0.2 (Preliminary) 2.6 Virtualization Virtualization is a mec hanism, where t he HBA c an have an a lternate v iew of t he ph y sica l drives. The RAID Processor allows various access strategies to the connected Hard Disks a nd ma y be co nfigured to re present n-dr[...]

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    Serial A T A Flash Drive A P-SRFD255 A XXXXR-G 10 © 2008 Apacer Technol ogy Inc. Rev 0.2 (Preliminary) The RAID Processor supports a d efinition of Safe (RAID-1) set. The HBA (Host Bus Adapter) does not need to know anything about the physical ar rangement of the data. To the HBA, the virtualized drive behind RAID Processor is a normal drive t hat[...]

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    Serial A T A Flash Drive A P-SRFD255 A XXXXR-G 11 © 2008 Apacer Technol ogy Inc. Rev 0.2 (Preliminary) recover y is needed, while the first one is not complete, then the new request is c onverted t o a Disk Rebuild Request . 2.9.2 Disk Rebuild First of all, the Disk Rebuild is re ally a Physical Partition Rebu ild. Onl y then the Ph ysical Partiti[...]

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    Serial A T A Flash Drive A P-SRFD255 A XXXXR-G 12 © 2008 Apacer Technol ogy Inc. Rev 0.2 (Preliminary) 3. Pin Assignment s Table 3-1 : Signal segment Pin Signal Description S1 Ground S2 RxP S3 RxN Serial Data Receiver S4 Ground S5 T xN S6 TxP Serial Data Transmitt er S7 Ground[...]

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    Serial A T A Flash Drive A P-SRFD255 A XXXXR-G 13 © 2008 Apacer Technol ogy Inc. Rev 0.2 (Preliminary) Table 3-2 : Power segment Pin Signal / Description P1 Not U sed (3.3V) P2 Not U sed (3.3V) P3 Not Us ed P4 Ground P5 Ground P6 Ground P7 5V Pre-ch arge P8 5V P9 5V P10 Ground P11 Ground P12 Ground P13 Not Us ed P14 Not Used (12V) P15 Not Used (12[...]

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    Serial A T A Flash Drive A P-SRFD255 A XXXXR-G 14 © 2008 Apacer Technol ogy Inc. Rev 0.2 (Preliminary) 4. Environment al Specification The environm ental spec ification f ollows the U S Military Standard MI L-STD-801F. Table 4-1: Environment al Specifications (Plan) 0°C ~ 70°C for operat ion Temperature -40°C ~ 100°C for Stor age Humidit y 5% [...]

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    Serial A T A Flash Drive A P-SRFD255 A XXXXR-G 15 © 2008 Apacer Technol ogy Inc. Rev 0.2 (Preliminary) 5. Physical C haracteristics 5.1 Dimension Unit: mm Tolerance: ± 0.2[...]

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    Serial A T A Flash Drive A P-SRFD255 A XXXXR-G 16 © 2008 Apacer Technol ogy Inc. Rev 0.2 (Preliminary) 6. Product Or dering Information 6.1 Product Code Desig nations A P – SRFD 25 5 A XXXX R – G Housing/OEM Device RoHS Blank = Sta ndard Product T ype S A TA R AID Flash Dri ve Apacer P roduct Code 2.5 inch[...]

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    Serial A T A Flash Drive A P-SRFD255 A XXXXR-G 17 © 2008 Apacer Technol ogy Inc. Rev 0.2 (Preliminary) Revision Histor y Revision Descri ption Date 0.1 Initial release. Preliminary specificat ion. Jan. 07, 2008 0.2 Updated fe atures and f unction modes Apr. 25, 2008[...]

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    Serial A T A Flash Drive A P-SRFD255 A XXXXR-G 18 © 2008 Apacer Technol ogy Inc. Rev 0.2 (Preliminary) Global Presence Taiwan (Headquarters) Apacer Technology Inc. 9F, 100, Sec. 1, Hsin Tai Wu Rd. , Hsichih, 221 Taipei Hsien Taiwan, R.O.C. Tel: +886-2-2696-1666 Fax: +886-2-2696-1668 amtsales@apacer.com U.S.A. Apacer Memor y America, Inc. 386 Fairv[...]