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    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . HA WK 2LP F amily: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ST32430N/ND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Installation Guide [...]

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    Contents Introduction ........................................................... 1 Electromagnetic interference ................................ 1 Before you begin .................................................. 3 Installation overview ............................................. 8 Product Repair ...............................................[...]

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    Hawk 2LP Family Installation Guide, Rev. B 1 _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Introduction This manual is organized to assist you in the installation and operation of your Seagate Hawk 2LP Family disc drive. Family models are listed in Hawk 2LP Family Product Information secti[...]

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    2 Hawk 2LP Family Installation Guide, Rev. B _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ and Regulations nor the Radio Interference Regula- tions of the Canadian Department of Communications. However, the unit has been tested using proper shield- ing and grounding and found to be com[...]

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    Hawk 2LP Family Installation Guide, Rev. B 3 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Before you begin Verify that the system is switched off and discon- nected from main power before any installation is attempted. Protect yourself, the drive, and your valuable pro- grams and data[...]

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    4 Hawk 2LP Family Installation Guide, Rev. B _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ • When transporting or shipping a drive or system, please ensure that they are correctly packed in original Seagate approved (or equivalent) container and shipped via an air-ride carrier experi[...]

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    Hawk 2LP Family Installation Guide, Rev. B 5 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Static electrical charges can accumulate quickly on personnel, clothing and synthetic materials. The electrostatic fields due to these charges when brought in close prox- imity to susceptible cir[...]

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    6 Hawk 2LP Family Installation Guide, Rev. B _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Safety instructions 1. The disc drive(s) are to be installed in a customer supplied enclosure where the surrounding air does not exceed 50 o C. 2. Four (4) 6-32 UNC-2A screws are required for ins[...]

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    Hawk 2LP Family Installation Guide, Rev. B 7 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Sicherheitsanleitung 1. Däs Gerät ist ein Einbaugerät, vorgesehen für eine maximale Umgebungstemperatur von 50 o C. 2. Zur Befestigung der Drive werden 4 Schrauben benötigt (6-32 UNC-2A). Di[...]

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    8 Hawk 2LP Family Installation Guide, Rev. B _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Installation Overview Installation of the drive can be divided into distinct phases. Some of these may not be applicable to all system installation requirements. Refer to the indi- vidual drive i[...]

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    Hawk 2LP Family Installation Guide, Rev. B 9 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ • Low-Level formatting: All Hawk 2LP family drive models are low-level formatted at the factory and do not require this step during installation. If an installed drive is low-level formatted, a[...]

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    10 Hawk 2LP Family Installation Guide, Rev. B _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Product repair information Service requirements The special facilities required for the manufacture of these drives generally prohibit repair in the field. If problems occur during installation,[...]

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    Hawk 2LP Family Installation Guide, Rev. B 11 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ • Place drive on a flat, static dissipative surface and handle with extreme care. Always follow all EOS/ ESD precautions to avoid damage to the electrical assemblies. Shipping: When transporti[...]

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    12 Hawk 2LP Family Installation Guide, Rev. B _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Warranty: Contact your Seagate Authorized Distribu- tor, Dealer or other purchase source for warranty information. If the drive is no longer under warranty contact pur- chase source for repair i[...]

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    Hawk 2LP Family Installation Guide, Rev. B 13 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SeaFONE telephone number: 408/438-8222 The enhanced phone system provides recorded tech- nical information on selected Seagate products while you are on hold. Technical support specialists are a[...]

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    14 Hawk 2LP Family Installation Guide, Rev. B _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ With this service you can access: • Specifications and jumper configurations for all Seagate products. • Reprints of Seagate documentation. • A directory of information and helpful utiliti[...]

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    Hawk 2LP Family Installation Guide, Rev. B 15 _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Hawk 2LP Family product information Characteristics of the various drives covered by this manual are listed in the following table. Legend for table column meanings: A = capacity, unformatted [...]

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    16 Hawk 2LP Family Installation Guide, Rev. B _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Notes. [1] Standard units are factory formatted with 512 data bytes per sector with one spare sector per track and 2 cylinders at inner tracks reserved for spares in addition to capacity listed.[...]

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    Hawk 2LP Family Installation Guide, Rev. B 17 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Initial set-up information For the initial setup connect the cables or plug into a mounted connector (if applicable), set the drive ID on the bus and enable or disable the I/O line terminator IC[...]

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    18 Hawk 2LP Family Installation Guide, Rev. B _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DC Power connection The drives receive DC power through a 4 pin connector mounted on the PCB next to the SCSI I/O connector. See figure below. Figure 1. DC power connection, 50 pin SCSI I/O conn[...]

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    Hawk 2LP Family Installation Guide, Rev. B 19 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Bus termination Model "N" drives have an active terminator IC that is permanently installed, but can be enabled or disabled by a jumper plug. See jumper in Figure 3a. If you are instal[...]

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    20 Hawk 2LP Family Installation Guide, Rev. B _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Read/Write head auto-park Seagate disc drives described herein mentioned in this drive park the heads automatically at power off. This feature requires no operator intervention. Optional parity [...]

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    Pin 1 50 Pin SCSI I/O Connector J6 J5 J2 Hawk 2LP Family Installation Guide, Rev. B 21 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Figure 2. Hawk 2LP family N/ND model drives I/O connection (50 pin SCSI I/O connector). "N" model drive terminators (not visible) are not[...]

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    22 Hawk 2LP Family Installation Guide, Rev. B ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Drive configuration Each disc drive has one or more option select header connectors on the back, side or front where jumper plugs are installed to select the way that the drive is to be configure[...]

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    Hawk 2LP Family Installation Guide, Rev. B 23 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Figure 3a. Drive configurator, Hawk 2LP family N/ND models Pin 1 End Pin 1 SCSI I/O Connector Pin 1 J2 See Figure 3b Drive with HDA up, PCB down, viewed from front Delay Motor Start Ena[...]

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    Pin 1 SCSI I/O Connector Pin 1 HDA Side View of Drive J1 SCSI ID = 0 SCSI ID = 1 SCSI ID = 2 SCSI ID = 3 SCSI ID = 4 SCSI ID = 5 SCSI ID = 6 SCSI ID = 7 J5 A 0 A 1 A 2 DC Power Connector J2 Drive Front J6 J5 J1 50 pin SCSI connector 24 Hawk 2LP Family Installation Guide, Rev. B _________________________________________________________________[...]

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    Hawk 2LP Family Installation Guide, Rev. B 25 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Notes for Figure 3a and 3b: [1] Notes explaining the functions of the various jumpers on jumper header connectors J2, J5 and J6 are given below in left to right order of jumper position. The ter[...]

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    26 Hawk 2LP Family Installation Guide, Rev. B _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ J2 Jumper Position Jumper Function Description TE (Applies to "N" models only) On With the jumper installed, the On-board (non- removable) terminator circuits are enabled (con- nected [...]

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    Hawk 2LP Family Installation Guide, Rev. B 27 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ J2 continued from previous page PE On Parity checking and parity error reporting by the drive is enabled. Off Drive does not report result of parity checking to host. Default is a PE jumper ins[...]

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    28 Hawk 2LP Family Installation Guide, Rev. B _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ continued from previous page TP Position A ("N" family models only) On This horizontally positioned jumper across the two TP positions nearest PCB edge, connects terminator power from [...]

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    Hawk 2LP Family Installation Guide, Rev. B 29 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ J6 continued from previous page LED These pins used to connect a cable for a remote LED indicator. Pin 3 (top, nearest HDA), the anode connection, connects in the drive to the +5V supply through[...]

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    30 Hawk 2LP Family Installation Guide, Rev. B _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Drive installation This section describes the physical mounting of the drive in the host cabinet and the logical installation as a system member, which is called drive setup. Disc drive mounting[...]

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    Hawk 2LP Family Installation Guide, Rev. B 31 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ • Verify that all connections between the drive and the host system are correctly installed. Most cables have a contrasting color stripe indicating pin 1. Pin 1 on the drive I/O connector and [...]

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    32 Hawk 2LP Family Installation Guide, Rev. B _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Figure 4. Hawk 2LP family N/ND model mounting dimensions (50 pin SCSI I/O connector) A F D E C [1] [3] B G [1] Mounting holes three on each side, 6-32 UNC. Max screw length into side of drive 0.[...]

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    Hawk 2LP Family Installation Guide, Rev. B 33 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Grounding Signal ground (PCB) and HDA ground are connected together in the Hawk 2LP family drives and cannot be separated by the user. The equipment in which the drive is mounted is connected di[...]

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    Seagate Technology, Inc. 920 Disc Drive Scotts Valley, CA. 95066-4544, USA Publication Number: 77767473, Rev. B Printed in USA[...]